From the Hogfather movie based off the Terry Pratchett book by the same name.

Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

There has been much sadness in the world around me recently. Not just for myself but for the ones I love and treasure. I am watching people that I respect go through ups and downs that tear even the mighty down. And I am holding onto the little ones who have yet to understand the world and whom get more distressed at seeing their parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents suffer then over anything else.

There is something beautiful in "the falling angel meeting the rising ape". We are looking upwards even while we glance behind. Somewhere there is an answer to the suffering that we feel. And I must believe that that answer is in the gifts all around us, the wonders of the universe that we look through instead of at. Thank God for the blessings, thank God for the power of belief, for it is here that we can find peace.

I am so thankful for the gift of my family, even if I spend more time taking it for granted. I have loving parents, who never held me back and let me be as strong and free as I am. All my friends, my relatives who have raised me with an identity, a knowledge of who I am and where I'm going.

I am thankful for the family that has adopted me without resentment, without judgment, with nothing but love. May I be worthy of your love and your respect, and may I never show you anything but love and respect in return.

And my sweet Susan... I am most thankful for you. For the lessons about love, friendship, and partnership that you have taught me. And mostly for that tender heart that has drawn me out of my own battered shell, if only by providing a shelter for me to arrive at.

Thank You Lord, Thank You Everyone,

God Bless

~Lee

You came to me like
Lightning upon a picket fence
Shattering my illusion
With shockingly bad sense
And I may never feel the same
But I won't always feel this pain

So let faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be here til the end
If you do not see me bend
Then you know
I will have been bravedancing

You rain to me like ashes
Volcanoes come and go
You seem to have such passion
For someone so shallow
And I may never feel the same
But I refuse to play these games

So let faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be here til the end
If you do not hear my voice
Then you'll know
I've had no choice

So let faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be my own best friend
If you do not see me bend
Then you will know
I have been bravedancing

I see the moon
About to bloom
Into thousands
Of bright yellow roses
And they'll be spreading
Their light across the sky
And I wish my garden
Could grow this

When friendship
Is so frightening
It's hard not to overthink
Kisses were like kite-flying
I knew we'd sail or sink
And I might never feel the same
But you must see
How much I have changed

So let faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be here till the end
Faith fall on me now, oh
I'm gonna be my own godsend
If you do not hear my voice
Then you'll know
I've had no choice

So let faith fall on me now
I'm gonna be my own best friend
And if you do not see me bend
Then you will know I have been
If you do not see me bend
Then you will know
Where I have been
Bravedancing
Bravedancing

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