First: terrific photo of this peace filled river and the Emerson quote to accompany it.
Second: your journaling is heart warming and breaking at the same time. Being older gives both of us both a fuller view of the true meaning of life...the here and now and what is yet to be. The void that losing one's life long friend is impossible to fill. It's always the little things that you used to do together that is often the most painful. They say time heals. I don't believe it does. Times only makes the sharpness fade and maybe that is the way it is suppose to be with the one you love the deepest.