So here we are....

...somewhat of a relaxed morning....sun out....and the year is coming to an end....

...geeze....celebrating the new millennium seems like yesterday....ten years....a decade......has whizzed by....and a new one is round the corner.....

...every ten years one tends to look back and take a good look....what has changed.........what the journey has provided.....and where we seem to be heading....

..I find that the arrogance of youth has now totally disappeared....with a smile I recall the times I made a fool of myself because of it.....and how if I had to rewind those years....I would do it exactly in the same way all over again....

..I find that all those things I craved along the years.....have occurred one by one....possibly later then what I would have wished for....but come they did....

..I find that I no longer take anything for granted.....life has a habit of blowing away all that you thought you had solidly built....it is not your surroundings that matter.....but your inner capability to adapt....to move on even if it means getting your hands dirty and sweating doing it....

..I find nothing is absolute truth....not what you have been told is so....not religion....not politics....not the media.....it all depends from the perspective one is looking from....my truth may be lies to someone on the opposite end of the spectrum...

...and finally....I find that I am content....to have come so far....to have loved and been loved....to have suffered pain as I have enjoyed joy.....and look forward once again....to carry on with my journey into the next phase........with a yearning for discovery....of that which I still have to learn....


...and to all those I have met along the way.....may the new year bring forth happiness.......