STILETTOS TO ARISTOTLE

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Today is my twenty-seventh birthday. Somehow, each year seems to just get better and better. Not necessarily easier, but better, richer, and deeper. The best gift I could receive are the relationships that I already hold so dear, the people who walk with me, love me, and make my life worth living. So thank you, friends, for being my family and

“Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, “What? You too? I thought I was the only one.” (C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves) Our company of four – whom I shall refer to as Merry, Pippin, Bil