Bornday, Birthday

Today January 4, 2012 is my 39th birthday and for all practical purposes I just had dinner alone; while there was someone sitting across the table from me...I was ALONE!!!! However, this did not make me sad in anyway. It gave me strength, because for the first time in a very long time I did not allow someone else to steal my joy!!!!!

Now with that said one of my goals for this day was to introduce my blog The View From Rock Bottom which is celebrating its birthday today on my bornday. I have spent my entire life behind a #2 pencil writing poetry, pulling together speeches, making this sound better for this person or that occasion. I've spent just as much time writing my own story and I have notebook after notebook of false starts and journals filled with the same sad story. All of my previous work came from this place of pain that I have never been transparent enough to share. Now that I am operating in a headspace of forgiveness of self and others, I have learned that life is not about bouncing back quickly once you hit rock bottom, but instead turning over on your back and enjoying the view.

I welcome you to the view from rock bottom, I hope as we journey through this cyber journal that we find a way to grow with each experience good or bad because learning the lesson is how your truly begin to live.