Yeah, I've Had The Privilege To Know

Daily Meditation Keeps Me Sane. I Memorize Prayers Or Poems That Express My Highest Spiritual Ideals, And Quietly, Word For Word, Go Through The Prayer First Thing In The Morning. Julian Of Norwich Or St. Francis Or The Compassionate Buddha. It's Called Passage Meditation. You Internalize The Perennial Philosophies.

A Wonderful Pastor I Know Once Told Me, "perfectionism Is The Highest Order Of Self-abuse." So Now I Try To Remind Myself That If I Engage In Perfectionism, I Am Abusing Myself. Period.

I Was Powerless Over My Childhood But The Coping Strategies That I Developed, To Survive, All Of Which Were Creative And Brilliant And Got Me Through, As An Adult Those Became My Defects Of Character. Those Became My Shortcomings, Control And All That Kind Of Stuff... And That's My Responsibility. I Was A Blameless Child In What Happened In The Home; I Take Responsibility For My Behaviors As An Adult.

I Did A Lot Of Hiking And I Loved It.

The Empowerment Of Girls And Women Is An Essential Tool To Preventing The Hiv/aids Emergency From Exploding Any Further