I have amazingly interesting friends, who, collectively and individually – are smart, thoughtful, creative and embrace the world. They share themselves in uniquely personal styles and forms. My closest and most beloved friend has helped me learn how I look at myself.  And she holds my hand along this most difficult of experiences. Why she does this, I do not know. She is part of the best days of my life.

These people make the best moments of my life so indescribably wonderful I almost, sometimes, often feel unworthy of their love and attention.

I have a different friend, Gayle – who lives in the same area of the California desert I did as a child, and who has no good reason to be my friend. She often shares her thoughts about life with me; passing along interesting things for me to read and watch and think about. This video is one. ~blm