J.K. Rowling rocks my socks.

On Friday night the girls and I went to Barnes and Noble to get the new Harry Potter.  We had to wait until 1:30am to get it, but holy moly was it worth it!  I finished it last night, and now I am bursting to talk to anyone else who's finished it.  Have you?  Then call me!!  Wow, what a book....  It absolutely blows number five out of the water.  Yay, Deeder comes home this week!  I can't believe it's only been two months since we last saw each other, it feels like a lot longer.  There are going to be some super cool Frontier Days celebrations going on too.  Unfortunately, since I still have no job, I won't be able to cut loose to much.  Ah well, it's bound to be a great time anyway. 

I just came from a rather serious conversation, the details of which I won't go into too much, but it's really got me thinking.  There is so much in life that we accept as true with no other evidence than someone's word.  When you know someone whose word you can't take as evidence though, and in fact are more likely to take it as the opposite, it makes it extremely difficult to navigate the relationship.  I suppose it's simpler if you know that the person is not being truthful for spiteful or malicious reasons, because in such situations it's perfectly justifiable to simply sever the relationship.  However, when a person's motivations are not clear, and you can only suspect that they are doing it out of a perceived need for self-preservation, it becomes extremely tricky to know how to respond.  It has become even more complicated because these fabrications have become so numerous and so entwined with the actual truth, that it is extremely difficult to know what's what.  How are you supposed to know at what point you should tell this person that you know they are being dishonest, and attempt to draw the truth out of them?  And what if they still refuse, despite the overwhelming hard evidence, to admit to the lie?  It's clear that something very serious is going on, but until this person can even admit to having lied in the first place, I don't know how to offer the support that is surely needed.