I have wonderful friends. 

In fact, looking back through my life, I have always been blessed to have amazing, unique, beautiful, dynamic people walking around in my life; some of them have been dear, personal friends to me, and others have been just people I know, but all of them have taught me so much truth.

Right now, my closest friends are so much more dynamic than me, and their energy just inspires me. They are passionate about life and God and music, they love their families and want to make a difference in the world.  They dream big dreams about making this community better, and not in some glamorous, self-serving way, but by loving more people in more ways. 

Today, I feel awake to both the possibilities in these kind of big dreams and to the fact that having friends and loved ones like I do is the richest kind of blessing. On paper, my life is pretty boring, but it is thick and rich in practice, and that is because of my family and my neighbors, my daughter and my best friends, all living in this life in their own beautiful ways. And they are all so different, and they all inspire me in unique ways.

I wish there was a sincere way I could tell each of them--friends from right here and right now, and friends from my whole life--how blown away I am by their humor and intelligence and grace. I am tempted to start a list of names and to literally write little thank you notes for time shared and laughter and honesty and fun, but I don't see clearly where to draw the line--When you realize that your whole life is worth living because of a web of people who touched you, who do you leave out?  :o)

That just might be the best possible problem a person could have.