Article Contributed on: 4/9/2009 11:03:06 PM
Today I realized that nothing says you haven't been connected to the real world like reading an old blog talking about starting a weight loss journey, just to find that here today - I am still back there. I have been on so many other journeys that I almost regret not capturing some of my thoughts after that post was brought to my attention at a time that seemed so apropos and hauntingly needed.
So I start again today with my writing. I crave getting my creative synapses firing again, but first I have to get in there with some mental Formula 409 and do some heavy duty cleaning.
It's time to pack up and ship out the very real adult pain that came and hunkered down in the shadows when my parents divorced after 43 years of marriage. I need to scrub out the chaotic graffiti that was having to redefine what the word cheating really is in a marriage. There is much needed organization of the memories of my dad after losing him...although he is still alive. And it's time to carefully archive my mortality that was delivered one beautiful football Sunday afternoon.
Life should be viewed through rose colored glasses - there is so much to be seen and done, but only so little time. However, if you don't take the time to stop and repair the lenses that have been pitted by life's occasional sandblasts, then how can you ever look out and see what it's all about?
Today I am ready to begin seeing clearly again.....