Woman on The Verge

Ok, this is a test, this is only a test. If this were the real thing, there would be fireworks, trumpets, a total eclipse, and a naked lady astride a white stallion, her long tresses chastely covering her assets. (Actually, that would have been more Elizabethan. Today it would be the launch of a Mars space shuttle.) At the risk of adding one more voice to the cacophony of cyberspace POV's, I'll add my own two cents. And a photo I took of a full moon over the Brooklyn Bridge. I supplied the scenery, you supply the symbolism.

I'm a woman growing up in the middle of my life; I'm starting over, not unlike the convicted felon released from prison. The big difference is that I have no criminal record. In fact, I have all the experience and wisdom I've come by without the limiting strictures. I am free, for the first time in my life, to do whatever I want, whenever I want, with whomever I want. I think it was Rousseau who said: Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains... It's tough being your own boss, following your own bliss, making up whatever you think life is supposed to be about. I have no idea where this will lead, but I believe that by taking a step you begin the journey regardless of whether you have a map or not. The truth is we arrive at very different destinations than those we start out to reach, often to find that where we end up is where we always really wanted to be. Sappy but true.

I'm only beginning to find my voice, a tone I can slip into as comfortably as my plush pink cloud socks. A tone that reflects exactly who I am, an existential broad with a lot on my mind. What better place to download the contents of my brain than in the stream of cyberconsciousness? The truth is I have an unrepentant jones for connecting the dots when it comes to how the universe fits together. And being a writer, I love fooling around with ideas, words, and feelings and seeing how it all adds up. Or detracts.

You be the judge. Because in the end, the only thing that matters is what you think anyway.