“God asks no man whether he will accept life.  That is not the choice.  You must take it.  The only choice is how”—Henry Ward Beecher

I want to plug in a sentence or two to say that my life so far has had an Act I and an Act II.  I am proud to report that Act II has just recently started.  You dear readers (if you exist at all) are here with me on my journey for Act II.  A lot of things that I will write about are from Act I, sometimes independent on their own and sometimes connected to current Act II events.  A lot of these events from Act I are sad, really sad, sometimes annoying and sometimes funny.  If I seem like I was completely lost I was.  Not that I am currently found.  But much, much more awake.  I realize as of late how much I am truly in control of this beautiful mess.