It's been a long time, I know. But it's also been a long, hot, painful summer for me. And as trying times in our lives usually do, it's teaching me some lessons about who I am, who I want to be, and what I'm willing to sacrifice to be that person.
Because of knee replacement surgery, I've had a lot of solitary, sitting-on-my-couch-with-nothing-to-do-cuz-I-can't-move time. Oh, don't get me wrong - double knee replacement will change my life for the better. But that's a definite WILL...not a HAS. The process of getting from the surgery to the better is not for the weak, my friends!
But this post isn't about me whining or bemoaning the fate of my summer. Nope! I mention it to explain that all this sitting around has given me an extraordinary amount of surgically enforced "down" time...and my active mind isn't at all used to that. I may not be very physically active this summer, but I'm rarely not mentally active...and I've really been doing some thinking. Overthinking in too many cases, I'm sure. I've had some happy moments and some dreadfully sad ones, but in it all, one theme keeps coming back to me and it's time to talk about it...get some feedback, hopefully. Let me fill you in on some of what I've been feeling and thinking.
