Slippery When Wet's blog: "honesty"

Old bones and stones covered in sea lichen add an exquisite set of browns , grays and greens to the shore.
I love watching the salted sea ebb and flow over the stones. It looks old as death but really quite alive
for sea creatures, plants and the like populate its beds in an endless series of cycles of birth and death allowing for the varied coasts upon which we
live. I sat today examining my nature. Sounds simple, but it’s really not. Not if you dig deep..and you’ve
been lazy with yourself like I have.

To be alone. I thought deeply on this for there are those whose lives are such. They touch me as I feel their aloneness and
it makes my heart soft in the thought for no human soul should be without love and closeness derived from being just near.
To touch one’s shoulder with a very slight touch, it share a sunset in the very late afternoon, maybe a good laugh while discussing something silly,
or perhaps a drink with no words spoken and knowing that there was a warm spot reserved with their name on it in the bed later in the evening. These are things of great value and all humans crave such.

Sometimes you must be alone to really divine your nature for others crowd out thoughts that would normally flow into your mind. How can one divine their nature? Quiet times, simple moments without all of the cares of the world pounding for attention.
Not easy to do in today’s high paced world..everything clamors for attention. Block it out or set it aside
for a bit..take the retrospective look behind you and your life now. How does it feel? What needs to change? Are you afraid of
change?

Often change is the most difficult thing to face for it means you will certainly lose something and usually without certainty of any
gains. But if you let this fear dominate you will become sedentary and without great joy or excitement locked into the
path chosen..of course unless you already have this. Most of us can always afford some change for rarely are things perfect. Change is the
renewing agent of all life.

I have my demons to face..hard choices and painful change..but how can I be me if I shirk such change?