Recently, or possibly not, I wrote about things that good friends taught me.

Recently, or possibly not, it occurred to me that I hadn't covered all the bases, hadn't mentioned all the friends that had taught me improtant things over the course of my life. So far as it is.

And so now, I proclaim unto you, those readers who find yourselves reading this, that there are more, many more good friends of mine who have taught me important things. Three, three good friends, previously unmentioned, that here deserve, that here have earned, through merely being the people that they are--these three deserve mention:

First, there is Stacy, whose birthday I nearly forgot.
Things Stacy taught me

• Staying in touch with friends is how friends are made for life.
  (Sometimes I think to myself that friendships can be reduced to this level of a deeply felt one-liner. But Stacy has reminded me over many years that friendships evlolve--sometimes grow and sometimes shrink, but evolve nonetheless--and she reminds me that friendships, to stay IN-TACT revolve around CON-TACT. They depend upon the weekly recount of quotidia, and they also revolve around the asking of whether or not "quotidia" is a word in our English language, and, if it isn't, frienships revolve around creating a meaning for that word, for that world, that means nothing outside the conversation that you are having with your friend.)
• Perhaps astrology ain't as full of shit as I assume it is
• It's not a shameful thing to love the stories that you tell about your cats

• A toast isn't a toast unless there's a poor Irish-accent-imitation involved
• The love of a good woman and a good dog can turn any man around
• Invite whomever the hell you want to to your wedding. Sure, the marriage is going to last forever, and your brothers will always be around too, but you only have a short time to invite a couple of short men to participate in the festivities.

• (And this just recently) Working through tough spots in relationships can be hard, but will be fruitful. Even when the relationship is over
• Don't get totally freaked out when your roommate starts laughing in his sleep
• When we were growing up, we used to get freaked out by how fake our parents seemed. Now that we're older, we have to figure out where to place the fakery we learned from them