Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?
I can’t help but acknowledge the unpredictable twists of the past year. Last year, I triumphantly checked off the last state on my list, relishing the adventurer’s spirit that guided me to the snowy landscapes of Alaska. Little did I know, the word “adventurer” would be replaced by a trio of unexpected companions: survivor, resilient, and awe.
In the aftermath of the first year of the pandemic, I already relinquished the illusion of foreseeing my life five years ahead. Now, in the wake of this tumultuous year, predicting the course of the next month seems equally elusive. It’s akin to navigating a Scooby-Doo mystery, or perhaps a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, where battles come incessantly.
And yet, through the chaos, there’s a silver lining – the activation of an internal strength, the essence of survival, and the constant source of awe found in witnessing my son’s resilience.
As I ponder the word for the upcoming year, selecting a single term feels like an arduous task. The whims of life make it challenging to encapsulate the essence of what lies ahead. Perhaps, as the clock ticks towards the new year, the perfect word will emerge, carrying the weight of the unexpected and the promise of new adventures.
So here’s to raising a cheer on New Year’s Eve, not just for the passing of time but for the unpredictable journey that awaits in the coming year – a journey that, like a good Buffy episode, might surprise, challenge, and ultimately, bring a moment of respite. Cheers to embracing the unknown and finding meaning in the midst of life’s unpredictable narrative.
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SMiLes Dear Miriam in The Darkest Days of Dungeon
in The DeadZone of HeLL ON EartH For me my Rich
Uncle Trying to Find the Root of my Problem
in Darkness (Other than the Dentist Drill-like
Pain in my Right Eye and Ear Wake to Sleep
No Drug Would Touch For 66 Months Mostly
Shut-in my Bedroom With Another 18 Medical
Disorders in Synergy of Life Threat Yet Invisible
Medical Disorders to the Untrained Eye that only
Saw a Somewhat
Slenderer And Healthy
Looking Young Man as
Still Described by the Doctor’s
As such before they found ways
to Diagnose Hell was “Type Two
Trigeminal Neuralgia” in me Among
The Rest After They Found Appropriate
Medical Tests That Belied What they Saw
Of me in
External
Form Alone of Course
It Took Two Years For them
To Diagnose Most of the Medical
Disorders Except for the Closely
Associated Severest Depression and
Anxiety my Air Force Major Psychiatrist
Said He Ever Observed in A Patient After
Dealing With Combat Fatigue in So Many
in The Sand
Traps of the
Desert Unwarranted
Wars to Tear Down and
Rebuild for Contract Bucks
And Kill a Bunch of Brown
Folks For Less Than Human Cannon Fodder
Anyway my Rich Uncle Who Was Trying to Help
me Pull Up my Bootstraps And Get Back to His
Version of Normal Said Hey Things Could Be Worse
See That Sea Gull
Over There All You
Might Get to Be Is
A Sea Gull Eating Raw Fish
True my Uncle Got A lot of
His Rewards of Life Out of Fine Food…
Yet You See i Chose to Become “Jonathan
Livingston Seagull” (Better Put ‘The J Gull’
Chose to Be me for No Reason Yet Soul
Deeper Deeper) And Fly Higher Than Pain
And Misery and Hell And Anything He could
Possibly Pay for in Life
How Blessed
Are the Poor in
SPiRiT Reborn With Wings…
Come What May Amazing
Potentials Indeed With SMiLes…
Every Door Closed Another Stairway to Heaven
or
Hell…
Roll the Bones
And Get Flesh
And Blood Who
Am i To Complain
About This Gift for Real..:)
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Every day is a battle and by the end of the year, we count the casualties among our dreams and plans. That you tell you if you can keep the advance or retreat.
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Do you know where you’re going to?
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Life can turn on a dime, as the old saying goes. I’m glad you’re still writing and sharing with your followers. Sending you and your son well-wishes for a better 2024.
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