Never ask a Caterpillar for advice... or me...

Caterpillar: Ah, Alice, you've returned...

Caterpillar: Become whole again. I need to rest. 

You need to regain your human size. 

Grow up, Alice. Embrace the truth.

I was having what I thought a pleasant conversation with a friend,when in mid-sentence her demeanor changed -- she leaned into the table and her voice lowering -- "have a question to ask you?"  "I need your opinion - on an very important matter?"

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. -- I hardly know, what to respond to my dear friend with a great deal of trepidation --- 
"Oh says, I ?" thinking she knows  better then to ask me for my advice..

I try to relax and appear interested for her but my mind was racing thinking other thoughts -- more specifically on how to avoid this  conversation.  

Friend:
My partner and I have lost touch with one another,  you know the kind I mean..Just vulgar politeness between us.

                                                                                                                        Me: 

Sliding on slopes of love

All that is real 

Is rustling  with passion

Friend: 

My man lost that loving feeling between us. Now what shall I do?

  Me: 

Each day is a gift
                                                                                                honor it 
                                                                                                             live fully in the moment

Friend:  
My love has found another much younger than I.  How do I compete with that?

Me:

Bubbles passing by... 

                                                                                                        Pop! one, two, three...

                                                                                                             C'est la vie, mon amour.

Friend: 
Do you think I should buy a sexy dress?  


Me:

Laughing and dancing

With no music

In a watered colored sky!

Friend : 
Do you think he will come back to me?

Me:  

The Ecstasy of him

lying beside me

Now just one.

Friend: 
 How do you mend a broken heart?

Me:

Chocolate covered lips

Dripping chins

with fudge surprise

Friend:
How do I get over him?

 Dagonfly lands on me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    a soundless whisper 
                                                                                                                               dare to dance

                                                                                                                                                Friend:Thank you dear friend that was  helpful --- now do you think I should buy that new sexy dress

Me: No   ---you haven't heard a word I said -- go now and ....

Pick strawberries
                                                                                                          while naked
                                                                                                                    in the pouring rain

She walked alone
                                                                                                                      on a fragrant path
                                                                                                                       under a perfumed sky

Fin

- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- 
caterpillar quote from Alice  (2000) (VG)
Alice in Wonderland” is a photo set taken 
by photographer Annie Leibovitz, 
for Vogue Magazine back in December 2003
2 women in hats ru_glamour
lady in black Vogue US, 1970
Photographer: Richard Avedon
2nd lady in black
Tiiu Kuik by Alexander Neumann for Harper's Bazaar Mexico June 2010
 Red umbrella couple and  red umbrella woman google images
 woman dancing with bird from country french antiques blog
2 bed scenes and the woman with the tree shadow from lelove.blog