I thought it only fair to bring you all up to date, after the last entry:

First comes birth, then comes learning.

I learned to count on my family.

I learned how to make my own place in the world, again.

I learned to count on myself.

I learned that I had talents I'd never known, or rather had kept hidden from myself.

I learned that an offer of love, freely given, is hard to refuse.

Then I learned why.

Then I learned how.

I looked inside and found my connection, the one you have, too.

The connection to Everything, "from whom all blessings flow".

There are still problems.

I drag some of the chains that bound me to the dream, still.

I probably will, for some time more.

Moreover, there are changes to make, to realign the road of my life.

Yet, unlike the early days of the dream, there are no questions.

No things I'd rather keep hidden, unsaid, unfelt.

Life is a bloom: it doesn't last.

But oh how incredibly beautiful as it opens ...