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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.  ~Kenji Miyazawa

    Blogs are good reading and interesting if they are updated on a regular basis.  It has been a year since my last blog.  Yes, this is a confession.
    The last year has brought for me many challenges.  Exactly one year ago tomorrow my godson was killed in a car accident.  He was twenty years old.  This is as personal as it gets.  We were all so blind slided by his loss that the earth stood still for about three months.  
    I am sitting here upon that grim anniversary trying to answer the same questions, which of course is a futile effort.
    The one thing I do know is that during my year of pain and healing, I have learned that every experience, weather understood or not, is fuel for the fire.  Our lives are short unpredictable things and we must grasp at each flame of opportunity as it passes because tomorrow is not guaranteed.
    I do not hurt less today than I did a year ago, but I am able to function.  I can push forward to the successes that life will allow me and to bring my godson with me in those.  
    So my year of quiet has ended and I am back to inspire, aggravate and motivate you once again.
   
Unable are the loved to die.  For love is immortality.  ~Emily Dickinson

Thank you L.J. for all you have given me, your life has been an inspiration of joy and you lived it to it's fullest.