For My Best Friend Scott:

...it's been three years as of today, still missing you and wishing you were here. I hope your soul has found peace. I'm at a loss for words on this; as I look around at what has befallen this country since you've been gone, I can't help but think that you were right. It got worse, so much worse. It is a nasty world. Sometimes I'm glad that you didn't have to see what has happened since Nov. 2001.

But, I also know that there is abundant beauty, too, even if it is so very hard to find nowadays. I wish you were here to help me find that beauty; in myself, in others, in the spirit of love and freedom that still exists, however buried and oppressed it might seem at this point.

Someday, my friend, justice and truth will rise again. I have to believe that, and I hope I live to see it.

I miss you Scott. Until we meet again...