Change is the name of Life's Game

After years of journaling, collecting dusty words in countless volumes, capturing many of the ups and downs, highs and lows, joys and sorrows of this mixed-up life of mine, I find myself running headlong into the looming, unknown abyss of the blogging world! Why? I don’t know, maybe it was inspired thought. It just seems like the next step. It “feels” right somehow. And I’m a huge believer in how things feel.

We all have unrealized dreams, unattained goals, unexpressed desires…well, maybe not ALL of us… but I would be willing to bet my sweet bippy (and what the heck is a “bippy”?) that ALMOST all of us sometimes feel unfulfilled or experience a sense, vague or glaring, of having somehow missed our boat. Childhood may have been the last time we thought about what we wanted to be when we “grew up”. But I firmly believe it’s NEVER too late to chase after those dreams, pursue those goals and “become what we were meant to be”. Our wandering spirits (read “confused”) may need to try on multiple experiences before we land on the perfect fit. Or maybe the fit only fits for awhile and then the urge to grow pushes us onward. But often we just get stuck and remain where we are, unsure how to rock ourselves out of the muck or, more likely too comfortable (read “too afraid”) to shake things up.

My experiences, while not unique in any sense, might be just the catalyst someone needs to step out of that familiar old box and stretch the sticky wings of their inner emerging butterfly. Personally I found most of my challenges and difficulties were during periods of transition and I’ve gone through ALOT of transition in the past 10 years or so. Yet through those transition times I found it more possible, more conceivable to evolve, try on those hats looking for the right fit. Life transitions us whether we like it or not. Might as well make the most of it.
This blog is about trying on different hats through the transitions of life. It’s about rediscovering those childhood dreams, grabbing a hold of those lost goals and going for it regardless of your age or any other perceived prohibitive factors. As I chat away in this blog I will re-visit some of my own stepping stones along my journey; share some of the side trips I took down unexpected paths. My hope is that by sharing my struggles, sorrows, successes and joys, confusions and revelations, maybe, a friendship of similar threads might weave us together. And that would be way cool !