"AUTHOR"

I have traveled many lifetimes on my journey here.  I have sailed calm waters and battled violent seas.  I have tripped over pebbles yet floated gracefully over uneven ground.  I have never turned away from a mountain or an impasse because it was “too hard”.  I have climbed and I have fallen.  I have soared and I have crashed.  I have embraced the light at the height of my achievements, and befriended the darkness at the depths of my failures.  I have learned priceless lessons from both.  

 The temptation to take the “easy road” has called to me many times, but the price I knew I would pay was never worth the “ease of the way”.  In every dark crevasse I have extracted untold treasures that I only wish to share.  In the sunlight, I have mined precious gem-lets whose value is greatest when illuminated for all to read.  I have celebrated life even as I balanced on the precipice of death.  I have contemplated death each time it’s shadow crossed my path, only to conclude that I have no time for its inconvenience. 

 I have but one purpose on my life’s journey; to evolve spiritually into a being worth knowing.  I do not desire fame; I thrive in anonymity.  I do not chase wealth; I search for the gold that is “wisdom”.  I forge my legacy with the gifts that were bestowed on me, articulating the lessons I have learned along the way.  And when this journey ends and I embark on the one hereafter, if I have been successful in this life, people will read me and remember not my name, how I looked, or how I lived, but only the truth of the wisdom I learned and shared along the way. 

 

Then and only then will I consider myself a true “author”.

 

 tls 2013