Old Friends...

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Thinking of my friend this morning - his birthday is this week--tomorrow in fact--but he killed himself a couple years ago. I can easily visualize his face and voice in all his moods. He could be so silly and funny, so compassionate, so sad, so caring, so insecure. So much fun, music, and talent for understanding. I still miss him.

Thinking of another man we knew from our extended community - he had disappeared in August, and just this week we heard he'd been found... It's just sad, sad. I haven't seen any announcements by email... I've just been tracking it by google news alerts. There must be at least 2 football/basketball players with a similar name because I've been hearing about random sports crap for months. But this week, there was a real news hit. He'd been found not far from where they had searched originally, but a little distance away from where he had disappeared. Then a couple days afterwards, the cause of death was confirmed. Sad, sad. One never knows the kinds of demons that people wrestle with out of sight.

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If you feel hopeless and depressed, please, please talk to someone and get help. You don't know the kind of joy you bring to the world.

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Now we will go traveling for 12 hours! Oh, happy day. Maybe we will have internet at the end...
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