First blog! First post! Kinda scary. Not exactly sure why I want to or what I have to say. But, I'm gonna give it a go. Starting with my quote from Lewis Carroll. I have always been partial to it and recently used it in an email to a friend. Well, after the fact I realized that I had misquoted it so I looked it up and read the poem,"The Walrus and the Carpenter" and found that I really loved the whole thing, as well. It's about talking some oysters into taking a walk with the walrus and the carpenter for the express purpose of dining on said oysters. I thought how much like my life that poem is. The times when one is vulnerable, gullible, acting without thinking because of a need to change circumstances which seem to be unbearable. Like taking a long walk off a short pier......never realizing the finality of your actions until you are eaten alive like the oysters. How do you come back after making a shambles of your life in such a final way. Well, first you flounder and give up and just when there seems to be no light at the end of your tunnel...from deep inside comes a shred of self preservation that propels you into salvaging what is left. And this is where that shred has propelled me. A new life, a new love of life, new purpose and hope.
Ah, end of first post. I'm glad I did it. WHEW*