for the beginning is truly a matter of perspective.

I could cite my birthdate (I am 42).....location (Canada).....and various sundry

opinions of myself, and my character....a wealth of random and really uninteresting interests and facts (as I see 'em)....I could.

It's really more apropos of where I am currently at, in my journey, to refer to my sobriety date as the beginning. I thought it was quite the end of me, actually. Destitute of hope, incomprehensible and pitiful demoralization...a bottom of the soul and not just the crashing consequences of all the external havoc that I had wreaked in my-and in others-life/lives.

Pleased to meetcha....I should think...I'm renowned for writing long missives-if I am interested and if you are not invasive, threatening, or insincere. So should we communicate online, perhaps that would be a forum for an other personal information to be exchanged.

oh my! This sounds decidedly like a ...bad dating profile...teehee...it is not. (it's bad as far as a dating profile would go, methinks, but it's not a solicitation for dates!).

I hope you are smiling, whomever you are....I smile a lot these days, where once I had to exert effort to. For so very long. I hope you can feel the sun opn your face and in your heart. I hope you grasp hold of hope when you think there is none.

And I hope you keep six, live long and prosper, and don't take any wooden nickels! (I love me a good cliche!)

:)