"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures
and some books, I live without envy."
Lope de Vega, 1562
After attending a Roman Catholic grade school I was sent to a private college-prep academy where the educational experience was exceptional, and the insights into social structures and the stressors of family pressures were overwhelming. I found myself openly embracing diversity, while never yearning to be anyone else.
In these early years, I saw what money could buy, but also witnessed the harmful side of it as well. It became very apparent that challenges enter all peoples lives and I knew I did not want to switch places. My life was lacking, but I somehow believed I needed to play the cards dealt to me.
Over the years, I have been on extensive travels and periods of an enhanced life, but my comfort zone has forever been created by books, candles, and warm hearted friendships. Simplicity offers pauses for the songs of birds, the whispering of the wind and hugs from the moon ... loving me all of the way from the sky.
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