I suppose the biggest "project" I have taken on in my life, besides life itself - and oh, what a project that is! - would be learning to forgive.

Like so many people today, I experienced severe abuse as a child. I have spent most of my teenage and adult life attempting to overcome the aftermath of such an experience. I visited numerous psychologists, psychiatrists, hypnotherapists and tarot card readers looking for that magical cure that would replace my painful childhood memory of abuse with a shining jewel of knowledge. Something, ANYTHING, that I could take from that awful experience and create strength and resilience within myself.

After thousands of dollars spent and a great deal of frustration, I began meditating on forgiveness. It did not happen overnight. It did not even happen within a year. But my childhood no longer haunts me. I no longer allow those experiences to define who I am today. All because I have learned to forgive.

"I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day." - Og Mandino

What an appropriate message in this online community given the authentic self-expression and reaching out to others that is encouraged here! I love it!!

I would love to combine walking barefoot in the wilderness with stargazing. It seems so raw and romantic... so sensual to feel the earth beneath my feet (grounding me, dirt and soft, dewey grass between my toes), and rest my eyes with love and awe on the heavens above me (lifting me up and losing my soul in its beauty). To feel that my body is a part of all that joins heaven and earth, in addition to the tall trees around me, the mountains that reach into the depths of the sky overhead. That would be completely blissful!