Hello, Everyone.

It has been many moons since I have written here and I appreciate your patience. As usual for me, when I take periods of silence, my creativity is under the surface, just incubating. It is with this knowledge that I come back to you with reassurances that I will always come back to you.

I've gone through my sets of trials in life, as I know you all do. Mine are only special to me, yet somehow I still think they give me wisdom that I should share somehow. Isn't it just so common these days that everyone with an education fancies himself a writer and burgeoning artist? Well good. I'm glad that the technologies and affluence of this country could allow so many people with undoubtedly important things to say an opportunity and many modes of media with which to share it.

If I ever get too cynical about this, someone, please gently remind me that I am being this way. I crave getting old and becoming the crone I have always sensed was there inside me, but I do not want to grow old in that negative, scarred and cynical way. The older I have grown, the riper and sweeter I have become. I say that this should always be the case for me, and I am hopeful of this!

My pain has only made me deeper and my colors richer, my failures have only led me to new understandings and broader perspectives. So although whilst I am in those silent times of incubation I feel a loss of focus and deprivation of the spirit, I try to have courage as I go forth into my future, knowing that with each smile and each laugh, I grow closer to more self-doubt and uncertainty. As much as I hope I can become better at reassurance, I work on acceptance that our fate is never one devoid of pain and this is my pain.

One thing I will always say is this: thank you for the opportunity to participate in this adventure and the mind and spirit to share it in my own unique ways.