These girls.

These beautiful girls.

These souls who fill my life with so much love and make up so much of who I am. Look at the joy they bring each other!!

I have so many pictures I’ve yet to share from Alex’s week here. To be honest, with an intensity I did not expect I fell apart after she left to go back home. (And a bit off and on while she was here. Ugh.) The reality of how far apart we physically are and how much I go without during this ongoing distance was something I’ve been able to bury and ignore… until she came and then went again.

Before we moved, the days counting down to our departure were so chaotic and so stressful that it was very easy to skip goodbyes of any sort and just go. If I am to be honest, this was by design for me as the only way I could manage to successfully leave. (Relocating your entire life is HARD, y’all. ) But the goodbye with Alex I’d so forcibly suppressed came roaring back out at me this trip, and the sorrow I did my best to skip appeared and insisted I work through it.

So, that is what I’m doing these days, and I’m okay. I’m happy and still very much aware of how much I’ve gained by being here.

But this girl. Most of you, especially my long-timers, know how much I love this girl. I wish for everyone I know a life-changing, YOU-changing, magical friendship like the one I share with Alex. And in the end, no matter what, I know that no amount of distance ultimately matters. Sisters. Besties forever. Ride or die. Help bury the body, no questions asked.

I am already looking forward to our next visit.

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“A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.” ~ John O’Donohue