Death of a Friend

All my friends are beautiful. When I decide that someone is a friend their whole aspect changes in my eyes. I don't know when I first noticed this but I know that if you are a friend of mine I easily look past all your shortcomings and see what I want to see.  This could be a function of the TBI, an easy simplification of the complex world for my minds assimilation. It could, also, be how it is for everyone, we see the people and things we like bathed in the light of beauty. I have never discussed this with anyone, because as I have said I don't understand people so I tend to avoid them. Those few who have, through one means or another, entered my life are changed in my eyes.

On the 28th of October my life lost one of it's glowing lights. Tiffany Martin was killed by being run down with a car. She was only 27 and was one of the very few people that I had offered sanctuary in my home if she ever needed it. To say that she was beautiful if an understatement. She, literally,  walked in beauty. She was always a breath of sunlight and peace when she entered my home.

She sought sanctuary in my home only three times and I gave it freely. I never asked why she felt the need, I simply gave her what she wanted. 

She loved the picture books that I have collected of great architectural masterpieces from around the world and pretty pebbles that I had gathered. We would sit in long silences enjoying each others company. She liked sugar in her coffee and enjoyed the high caffeine brews that I favor. She, also, enjoyed looking at the pictures that I had taken of various buildings and flowering plants around Albuquerque. I have great trouble relating to others, but for her I made an extra effort and it was very much worth the effort. 

To say that I am saddened by this death is not doing justice to the feelings involved. I can not properly express the level of feeling I attached to this one life. If all my friends are lights in my life, then she, surly, was one of the greatest lights. Her lovely smile is sorely missed in my life. I am much reduced by this loss.

In loving memory of my friend Tiffany.