“Think where a person’s glory most begins and ends
and say my glory was I had such friends.”
- William Butler Yeats
Wow! Within four hours of posting about my quest for two large suitcases, they were on my porch step.
I really hit the jackpot when it comes to friends. These two just won’t let me name them publicly. They love doing stuff without public accolades. So I have to honor that, but jeez… these are truly Christ-like Christians. They made real efforts to get to know me, without expectation. And when I told them I’m trans, introverted and very likely on the autism spectrum, they let me know I’m still beloved. That means the world to me.
So, thanks G and S!
Had Lunch with Edward Today
Because I missed yesterday’s very brief — but fervently planned and hoped for — get together with Edward Smith, I drove to Yelm today to have lunch with him.
Edward and I have been friends since 1978. We bought sandwiches at the Safeway Deli, then drove ourselves to the park to eat and reminisce about his lion Auroara and my serval, Deaken. We also reminisced about the many celebrity animal people we have known, the good, the bad, and the bogus. Edward and I are true animal whisperers. We can understand their languages and body language almost instinctively, in the way indigenous people so often have in the past… and still do in a great many cultures. We grew up observing them, interacting with them, and deeply respecting them.
We were at the park for two hours. I hope this won’t be the last time I see him, but in case it is, I took a few photos of us together, one of the totem in the kids playground at the park, and another of a butterfly mural that is displayed on the side of one of the buildings.
It’s a cute little park. We attended the very first PRIDE Festival there last year or the year before. (Time flies, but I think it was last year!)
Images from Today…
I love this man in a brotherly love kind of way. (I’m trans, not gay.) He has always marched to his own drumbeat and heart light. Society didn’t crimp his style. He’s a gem and a prince. To count yourself among his closest friends is a great honor.