Des Amies...

Friends are funny things. Sometimes you choose them, and sometimes you don't. Sometimes you see them coming....but more often than not, you look up one day and realize that you have four or five people in your life who somehow became people that you love more than yourself.

Friends are funny things....everyone has to learn to say goodbye...

Most of my life has been spent learning how to say goodbye. For a while it was an internal lesson. Attending a school full of misfits like myself gave an opportunity to actually listen to others speaking on the dreaded "transition" process.

I will never forget the night that marked the end of something extremely beautiful and right in my life...all of my closest friends in one room...in the Great Hall of the Art Factory...snuggling on a broken couch...listening to a crappy CD by some no-name high schooler :)......rubbing sleep out of our eyes from being awake for the past twenty four hours....there was so much beauty in one room.
and the tears.....those tears.....sharp breaths, gasping for air because we were using all of it to say "I love you" over and over again. And then suddenly, one by one, leaving....leaving....left...gone....

Well, my loved ones, you know who you are, I want to say that there is something else very important that we have all had to learn to say this year...I'm pretty sure most of you got it way before me!

everyone has to learn to say goodbye....and eventually to say hello.
I wish it had not taken me so long to figure out, but now that I have, I am overjoyed!

It has happened all over again....I woke up day, looked around my life, and found four or five friends who I love more than myself. What greater happiness is there in life than to love someone else more than one's self? I dare you to answer that question otherwise.

Yes friends are funny things....God is even funnier....He keeps bringing more friends for me to cock my head at and grin!


Well, to all of my friends out there, please stay tuned for more information regarding an album I am making that is all-original music, and most of which is dedicated to all you who I said goodbye to so long ago on that drizzly early morning in a drafty old Factory!