Best

I know yall get tired of hearing about how amazing my best friends are but I honestly can’t help but brag. I can’t help but rant and rave about the love and support I share day in and day out. And since I am always being so honest… I will say this… I shouldn’t feel guilty about stating how important my friends are to me and neither should you. One day you might wake up expecting a completely normal day but as soon as you walk out of your front door you’re blind-sided by life changing, dream altering news. TELL THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE, THAT YOU LOVE THEM, AS MUCH & AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN. Do not let those small words go to waste. Wake up, lose sight of the proud independent being you are and become vulnerable. I try my best to include every soul I undoubtedly love in my thoughts and words every damn day. I encourage you to do the same. So with that being said this blog is closing in on one individual who has impacted and entirely changed my life for the better without even trying.

Lynn Marie Risinger

I don’t believe in religion however I do believe in spirituality. I know with my whole entire heart & my broken soul that you were meant to be in my life. We have only shared this friendship for a short year but I think we can both agree that we might not have made it through that entire year without each other. Just like our old friend Edward Sharpe would say… “I’ve been everywhere with you…” We’ve had our fair share of FUCK YOU’S & Thank you’s but we somehow always manage to laugh through the troubles that seem to haunt our every day lives.

(Side note, I’m listening to Pandora right now “angus and Julia stone radio” and HOME just came on through my head phones, NO LIES)

Back to the action… I’ve never met someone who sees the world the way I do until I met you. I don’t know if it takes a large amount of dark days to inspire someone to be as carefree as we pretend to be. Maybe people are just wired differently, maybe I will never know. There are so many words I want to use in this blog but I find it extremely difficult to place them in order and in ways where they would make sense so I’m going to go back a few years and act as if I am writing in your high school yearbook. However these memories are no high school year sort of memories. These are the real, the raw, the dark, and the memories that will forever save my life. I love you endlessly, in the flesh, till the day we part.

Halloween 2010- Dr.Dog… the start of it all. I can’t even begin to thank you for bringing me into your beautiful group of friends. Thanks for sharing your best friend with me. She is simply striking and amazing in every way.

A certain Xmas party resulting in bad decisions- that decision does not come close to the conversation that took place on a kitchen counter earlier that night. The first time I ever really ‘leaned on you.’

My 21 birthday… I will never forget.

Our countless road trips to Reno. My friends falling in love with you just as I had promised they would.

Sasquatch, Burning man, Sunday afternoons, and a random after noon in my room listening to the funeral sitting on my bed realizing… we are the people are parents warned us about.

Rusko…

Lynnard, gf, other half, the best thing that has ever happened to me;

            From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you for saving all that is left of me. I don’t want this to be a crazy sappy letter because we all know we are so much tougher than that… However I don’t know how to explain how important you are to me, to my family, and to my friends. There needs to be more people like you in this world. You bring me back down to earth and encourage me to be better. I constantly look up to you in more ways that I will ever be able to explain. It seems like we are always together & somewhat attached at the hip… I am so terrified for the days to come where miles will separate us instead of walls. Where you are not just a Saturday night stumble away. But I want you to know that we will never be so far apart that we won’t be best friends. We will continue to live side by side until the sun no longer rises on the black rock desert. I will love you until the world stops singing. AND ME AND YOU… We will be okay. In fact we will be better than we ever dreamt of being. Because me and you, we have something that they won’t ever have. We have each other- and I am 100 percent convinced that, that is all I will ever need. You are beautiful inside and out & I am truly, truly, blessed to have you as my best friend. You are the realist thing that’s happened in my world in the past year. I love you, I love you, I love you.