of troy, I love you! You got tubes.

You do what it is sometimes very hard to do: you recognize that people are constantly changing.

In an art class I was working for, the instructor told the students that they had to try to get inside my skin, and that meant getting to know me. One student said, "I think I know Mary pretty well...." and the instructor said, "No, you don't - you don't know her at all. You have to get to know her each time she comes here - the same with all the other models. Nobody is the same each time we see them - whether we last saw them 20 minutes ago, or 20 years ago. People are always changing, whether in small ways or big ways."

That made soooo much sense to me - especially as I seem to be at a phase in my life in which I'm doing a LOT of changing/growing. I love it - it's fascinating.

And I love of troy for recognizing and defending that in me. Thank you Helen - you gave me such a warm fuzzy!