The trials and tribulations of love, emotion, physical passion, tenderness, knowledge and a respite from the world. All friendships have ups and downs and help us create and become who and what we want to be. We learn from the bad and thrive on the good and always hope for the best. Some friends come and go, some stay forever and others surprise you.

Friends used to be the complete basis of my life. Slowly and through hard lessons I have learned that to love is to let go and not love too tightly or you risk smothering them and they disappear in your grasp. It is often hard to not want to hold on tight, but in most cases you must learn to hold hands and hope for hugs later.

I have many many many good and even best friends. I used to picture them all and detail them all out to you the web reader. But now I have realized that most of my friends go beyond description and testimony. I love them all, I miss some of them greatly and hope someday to see all of them again.

Recently at my wedding a good group of my friends through the years were able to attend and reaffirmed to me the power of friendship and love. The power and sense of security it gave me to have them all in that room with me carries me through everyday, knowing that each of them came because of me. It is one of the most special and endearing feelings in the world to realise just how loved I am.

Having moved many times in my history, I often must say goodbye and pick up the pieces when I have settled at a new place, longing for the times past. Again I find myself doing that in this strange new land, but it shouldn't be forever, friends will visit, and keep in touch, and over time I will meet more wonderful people to add to my list of friends.

To all my friends who read this page, thank you all for having such an intrinsic part of my past, my present and of course my future, you are more invaluable to me then almost all else. You are my family, my blood, as much as my parents, my brother and my husband.

Cheers