His name Landon, hers Alex... He, son of a best friend... a person I’ve vicariously watched mature from questioning child to wise young man. She, a new entry in the journals of my life: A unique individual, who just as each of us do, lives forward by the light of her trials and victories. Through better and worse they each have navigated, all the while holding close to a set of values that some may share, and others may not. Of their personal choices, of their tribute to grandparents, of their families, and through their views on the value of friendship, they speak of not only the reach our individual influence has upon the world around us but of ideas that can be applied toward the growth of our own spirit...