Togetherness

Today I start writing this blog.  I've felt like doing this for a very long time and I think it is just something I need to do to get the writing done.  I look at this picture and see that it's not just me I do things for or that I've become.  It's who I'm woven into.  I'm part of my family of friends, my family or origin and my children.  There's so much to say about all that and this is the beginning.  For better or worse it's me and I make no apologies for who I am and who I've become from the experiences and understandings I've managed to accumulate in 59 years of living.  I've made my share of mistakes and I've found my share of sea shells on the beach, little bits of wisdom through the journey. 

This is my opinion on things and it's not going to be everyone's views, just mine.  Mine in all it's raw human forms.  We all have a right to what we think and how we express our thoughts.  I have so much respect for other's views and do not wish to offend anyone in what I say or believe.  That braid up there is who I am.  A composite of what I've been given on my journey through my life.  It's all the strands of what I'm most grateful for that will end up here.  If it benefits you to read about it then it makes me happy.  I do this for so many reasons.  Not just to share what I've learned in my life but to heal my own wounds.  In some ways to bridge that gap I feel that is so wide and deep and make as much sense of the world as I know it that is possible for me to make.  Here goes...