My husband once told me (and I really didn’t appreciate it at the time) that he thought what I excelled at was friendliness. I’ve never looked at it as a super power, but now I think differently. Friendship is more important to me than winning

ironically more win if we find ways to make and maintain bonds through ‘friendship’
It’s not about being adversarial, it’s finding commonality and taking time to care for each other.
Friendly societies are mutuals
Playing is creating conditions for friendships to flourish

So investing in friendship is of itself a worthwhile act.
The mutual act of friendship is one of connection and feeling loved and seen.
We seem to be in less than friendly times if we look upwards to politics, yet we have more mutual aid groups than ever before.

So if I was ever going to influence anything, or look at any policy or strategy or devolution deal, it will be through a lens of asking ‘does this help create the conditions for more friendships to form and flourish’ Which by definition means we redistribute our power