there are so many things about you that i admire
very high on that list is how you do this. take the emotion, the pain, all of that darkness and through some kind of alchemy turn it into these beautiful words. words that affect the people who read them. i know that most of these do not come easy, that you labor over them, letting them age, mature, and mellow; that you fish for that perfect word, the one with just the right flavor, tone and feeling. i will always treasure the gift that they are, from you to all of us.