Each day I am here I have struggles… Some more significant than others… Though I am the one to make them significant, to make them difficult; for whatever reason I have chosen for any particular one I am working through at any given moment… There is never a time that I cannot look to my friends and smile, even when I sit smack dab in the center of the puddle of gloom; I know that if I choose to, I can turn to my friends and find the laughter, the joy, or the comical side of this life… I have been blessed so deeply, I have been gifted far far beyond what any being could ask for in this life, with the most amazing friends and family…
Every day, every time I see you, any of you, and your faces light up with recognition, excitement, pleasure you are a gift to me… I see it, whether I remember to say it or not, I see it, and I feel it… It is a joy to be your friend, and I am grateful to each and every one of you… Those I share my book reads or not reads with, those that have been my family and are now my friends, those who I call when I am lost with what to do next, those that call and ask to hang out, those I have known since a child, and those I have just met, even those I have not yet met, those that I have tumbled with and those that we have always agreed… You are all very precious to me, and there are no words to express how deeply you are loved by me… Thank you