The Journey

The Journey It’s a phenomenon that we are confident we know it all at a time when we are actually inexperienced and naive like a child needing to learn not to put their hand to a hot stove we get burned in those early years carrying the scars forward forever Time passes and we accumulate knowledge and sophistication each day bringing another morsel to chew on swallow and digest we grow and apply bits and pieces to our everyday dramas and dreams pushing forward with only an amorphous picture of who we are As we age with the passage of time those morsels become full meals and turn into an examined life lived consciously and with purpose impacting those we love and we become confident that we’ll never know it all but a small fraction sometimes convinced we know less each day So we turn to the voice inside for insight and the chance to know who we’ve become along the way gaze deeply into the mirrors held up before our eyes with compassion by folks we care about and love sometimes even by kind strangers and continue the journey to now…