THE BEAUTY OF FRIENDS

My beautiful friend Michelle.  There’s a million things I could write about her here, and I just tried – only to delete each attempt because words sometimes make thoughts and feelings seem less real, or at least less credible.
She is both incredibly gifted and beautiful in so many ways, and at the same time so real and honest, and so completely unaware of how gorgeous she is.  Or maybe she just pretends to make us normal people feel better about ourselves.  Either way, she has been a source of inspiration and encouragement to me over the three or so years that I’ve known her, and generous in her love and affection.  So it was a wonderfully fun and refreshing weekend I spent with her and her family recently.  We took lots of photographs. We talked lots. We ate lots.  And we took some more photographs. Of each other, of the kids, and me of Michelle and her Man.

Here are some of the results. This is my beautiful, beautiful friend Michelle.  Kids and Man to follow soon.

Feel free to leave lots of comments and love, saying how beautiful she is.  Maybe then she’ll believe me.