With the dawn of this beautiful second day of 2018, I woke with the whisper of promises. It's ironic in so many ways -- life! My students have been doing "issue projects" this year. Designed to challenge them to represent their feelings about important issues, I've learned more about my own issues, I feel. In addition to addiction, co-dependency and enabling are behaviors / words that must be addressed for true recovery to happen. Over the years as I've struggled with my own reactions to the addiction issues and attended Al-Anon, I've learned many things about healthy lifestyles and true recovery. From an early age, I've prayed for and sought recovery for my family. In many ways, so much of my jadedness comes from an unfulfilled wish, an unanswered prayer, for recovery in my own family. When my daughters became addicts - well.............not only were my childhood prayers / hopes unrealized, but the disease had spread through me to my children...
This is the place where I write about all the random things that crowd my mind.....about family, friends and places. It is also the place where my newest writing projects and craft ideas can be found. It is, me, electronically.