Human friendship heals loneliness that no plant medicine can reach.

Evidence

There are some aches witch hazel can’t assuage; for those, we need each other. My mother and Hazel Barnett, unlikely sisters, I suppose, learned well from the plants they both loved—they made a balm for loneliness together, a strengthening tea for the pain of longing. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 274

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the gift-and-reciprocity throughline: the visit/party act as ceremony restoring belonging for a friend, bridging to earlier chapters on ceremony as a vehicle for belonging. — connects to: A world without personal relation to others is impoverished and lonely; Loneliness is not solitude but a distinct condition of being deserted by others — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1080

Broader Connections

• A world without personal relation to others is impoverished and lonely #expands (0.75)
• Loneliness is not solitude but a distinct condition of being deserted by others #qualifies (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1080