I love the community my shop is located in. I get to meet some really wonderful people and it's a special thing when they let me into their lives. I get to celebrate in their joys and cry with them in their losses. Today I feel sad because of the loss of a customer who was my friend. She was only 42, but had been fighting cancer quietly.

She was a kind-hearted person who left behind her husband and sweet son who she boasted of often. She was always concerned with how my shop was doing and loved to support small businesses in the community. She came in often just to say hi. She loved wildflower bouquets and our homemade colorado soap. She once told me she gives the soaps to people to help them remember Colorado or just as a little thank you. She was always thinking of others and will be dearly missed.