A friend.

Friendship is a funny thing.  Some of my closest friends, some of those who know more intimate things about me than I usually let people know face to face, are people who I have never met. They are like old fashioned penpals.

A good friend passed away in her sleep Saturday night and I am reeling.  Can people be vibrant on the page?  She was.  She was warm and vibrant and funny and oh so caring.  She loved unexpected things like bats and chickens. But most of all, she loved her mom.

I will never get to meet her and that saddens me more than I can say.