I've may not have said it before (or maybe I have), but it bears saying (repeating)

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

*squishes you all*



meme from aesiron

I've written 33 lines about 33 friends.  Go ahead. Guess. Some of these apply to more than one person. 

1. You have such a gentle heart and a gentle soul and I'm glad there are others in the world who also see that in you too
2. I admire your ability to come up with incredibly creative solutions to so many things - your fiction, your work, your life.
3. Fierce and unfraid and generous, you teach me about the meaning of the word undaunted
4. You are, and have been as long as I've known you, filled with a radiant dancing light. 
5. You are so generous with yourself I am inspired 
6. You are not only funny, and witty, earthy and wise in equal turns, you constantly make me smile
7. You are a great heart that has amazing strength 
8. I adore the way you are always so very much yourself
9. I love the way you perceive the world and cut through to the heart of things
10. You are, without a doubt, one of the unexpected but great joys of my life
11. Your gentle, wise, nurturing soul is breathtaking
12. You are irrepressibly forthright, and I adore that
13. There is such a joy and gentle smile to so much of what you do that I delight in you
14. I utterly respect not only your talent as a writer, but the way you lead your life and love
15. You are one of the reasons why I am in grad school 
16. I think of you, always, as gentle, adorable, and fiercely brilliant 
17. The best of friends, we've gone down the years together, and I could not have ever conceived how much you've added to my life
18. Your curiosity and your eye and your talent have always amazed me
19. My heart is brighter and more idealistic because of my friendship with you
20. Even though you're continents away I feel as if you are a kindred soul 
21. I think of you as someone who is truly alive in all ways and delight in that
22. You are, in a sense, a sister of my soul
23. You remind me that the only way to be is yourself, respecting yourself, knowing yourself, loving yourself, and how that brings the love in return
24. A little crazy, adorable, a little wicked and my darling
25. You are wise and witty and interesting
26. There is so much of you in me, from the tips of my toes to the ends of my fingers, and every drop of it makes me proud to be the person I am
27. You sparkle with wit and mirth and sly textual grins
28. I think of you as a giving, wise, adventurer 
29. Astonishingly smart, I am in awe of your brain
30. So deep in my heart I'm not even sure sometimes where you begin and I end, and yet so different from me that you challenge me every day in the best of ways, I cannot imagine anyone else I would rather make a life with
31. You remind me that being a gentle, encouraging, enthusiastic spirit is it's own kind of strength 
32. You pull no punches, ever, and that kind of honesty is painful at times, but worth it.  period.

If you guess today I'll tell you the answer, and I'll post the whole list tonight / tomorrow