Starting Out

You have to start some place.

Over the years I have found that the best vacation is often the past. All too often I get caught up in this crazy run away world in which we life. I don't stop, as I should, to reflect on this great gift of a life I've been given. I don't stop, as I should, to reflect on the wonderful God who made this all possible. So I thought a blog might be a good way to express thoughts of the past which are rooted in the present.

Some things you should know about me...

• I attack life (both spiritual and physical) with messy abandon.
• I have never owned anything new. My last two dogs were used. My beloved son was used (I adopted him at age 13). My car is used and given to me by my parents. But that's normal to me.
• I love to think and to feel beyond what is safe which causes headaches and heartaches, but it is simply the way I operate.
• We are all blessed (or cursed depending on your perspective) with what normal becomes for us. I was adopted by my parents when I was barely a month old.

So there it is... the beginnings of something. I hope to write daily -- take those breaks into the past so that I truly grow to appreciate what I have here and now.

~Douglas