Just when you think things aren't gonna work out, everything falls into place at the last minute. It takes you by surprise and you feel the weight lifted. 

   I'm happy, I'm truly happy and filled with so much love. And I'm so very thankful, grateful, appreciative. 

   As I've always said, hope is a lifeboat and even though hope was slipping like the waves of the ocean crashing in and over the sailing boat, almost certain the waters would take you under, the waters of the ocean calms, the dar...

  Life has a funny way of punching you in the gut. I ask for nothing in this life but to love and to be loved. Nothing else matters. Not the material things, not the time of day, not the location, nothing.

   Without love in this world, life is meaningless. Without love is a world in constant shadow. A sun that may shine but is dull and dim, a rain that falls but is utter darkness, a rainbow without colors, a spring bloom of wilted flowers and lifeless trees, a summer of burning earth, an autu...