where do I start?
how do you possibly pay unrequested homage to someone who has made the biggest difference in your life out of everyone you've ever known? I guess you just talk about who they are and what they do. whenever you feel like you should.
so, yeah. so like, this is one of those times.
kristin quite possibly has the biggest balls out of everyone I've ever met. she's the best writer I know, right up there with a couple of boys in bands that we worship. so that's like, really good. she's never wavered in being herself, even when it meant that the boy would leave or the friends might disagree. and that is a mighty feat. she's sparkles and feathers on everything, with an impeccable sense of timing. and she like, knows stuff. like what to say and who to quote and how things feel. I think a lot of people know how things feel, but she's just got this way of putting things... I mean, she's gone through, like, everything. so when something is happening to me, she just knows. for real. not like speculating about crap that's never happened to her. she's so - she's the moment when jordan takes angela's hand, she's the best kind of heartbreak, she gentle and strong and doesn't let me get away with anything.
I love her so much, for all of it.
you should see the way she leans.
so after ten years in boston, kristin fled the scene. got rid of most of her crap, packed up verna, and drove westward. towards the mother ship, into blazing sunsets, a million brilliant moments. because she's a woman who can and who does. but now she's feeling a little homesick, and I'm torn between telling her how much it means to me to watch her follow her dreams and sobbing for her to come home when I'm parked on the side of the road with ben gibbard blaring through the speakers, unable to move.
I guess I just did both.
maybe I need to buy a boat.
I could go on and on about things, but I'm really trying to take this "do work at work" thing a little more seriously. so I'll rip someone else off and go back to the phone calls -
knowing her is like drinking stars.
*sigh*
xo
~vvb
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