When I left for Denver for the first time, I put a picture of me and the 4th year girl from the last day we were on campus in a frame and put it on my desk at my internship. After a while things between her and I kind of hit a wall....it wasn't really a big deal to me, but it just didn't seem right to have that picture of us on my desk anymore. So I took the pic out and replaced it with a pic of me and somebody else (taken, ironically, on the very same day as the other pic). That sat on my desk for the rest of the internship. It sat on my desk for all of May Term back at Wartburg. It sat on my brother's nightstand while I watched his house during June in Colorado....and it has sat on my bookshelf for the rest of the summer. But the picture doesn't make me smile anymore. It hasn't for quite some time. It was time to replace it. Now the picture is of me and my childhood friend from Rockford -- Steph Jones -- eating cake on my birthday this year. Even more than making me smile, it makes me happy.