2:26 AM, The Gathering by Neville DeAngelou

You are alive! This is it. Your life. My life. His. Hers. Theirs. Intertwined. We are living it out in REAL time. What is time? You are probably living yours differently. Perhaps yours is an unfolding mystery. Like mine. Like theirs. Or an epic drama! Like ours. Perhaps some of us are enjoying the full experience of authentic living. Perhaps some are being enriched by extraordinary experiences. Perhaps some are trying hard to figure it all out - slapping heads, kicking stones, running up walls. Perhaps some are pressing to understand it better. And who knows, perhaps others have already figured it out now seated in the halls of Valhalla feasting from an udder's flow. What about you? Which life is yours? Here, in this space, we are exploring various facets of life - truth and beauty - joy and happiness - mental and emotional wellbeing - not in the usual ways. This is the perfect time for us to re-discover the sheer wonder of being and to create something remarkably spectacular; a beautiful life, an experience that is the joy of living, enhancing each other, seeking to make of this a better space, better than what was when we arrived.

"Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story." _The Desiderata . . . [more life tips]

I have long loved this thought, both for its poetry and its wisdom. "Finally, my brothers and sisters, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." And I have breathed in many - - - >

We are the stories we tell ourselves. We are the stories we believe. We are the stories we sing and speak. We are the stories we enjoy. We are our stories. We are the stories we run from, attempting to escape our own story. We are --->