I'm very much at a loss today. One of my very best friends for many years, my confidant, my confessor, my surrogate mother...my dearest daily friend was laid to rest. She passed on friday after a very unexpected, but very rapid illness took her from perfect health to this day we laid her to rest in less than three weeks. I stood beside her everyday in the hospital in disbelief at the progression. Only four weeks ago I was sitting in her kitchen drinking coffee, being my obnoxious self, taking her to the computer to show her my latest pieces of art, talking to her about her new beau....and today I stood in a crowd of her friends accumulated...