Pondering 2013: Part 1
     As 2013 quickly comes to an end, I am taking with me all the things I have learned throughout the year.    As in previous years, I learned quite a bit about myself.    Well, maybe not so much learned as finally accepted.     There’s no going back and changing what I did, didn’t do, say or didn’t say.    I can only say I’m sorry for being such a dip-shit and hope that one day the people in my life will forgive me.     Taking the first step, I forgave myself.    And I work each day to stay in the energy of forgiveness.     Which has helped me become stronger.     That strength led to me cutting family ties.        As I sit here writing this, I’m reminded of a scene from What Dreams May Come .    You know the one, where Robin Williams’ character finds his wife who just committed suicide?     Like that character, I fought my way through heaven in order to be with people wh...