Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.