Today, I find myself in a reflective mood about how I got where things are. You see, as recently as six months ago (August, 2008), I was proclaiming a great deal of "absolutes". In the two months that followed, the word NEVER came up a LOT!

Well, NEVER happened frequently over the last several months. Some examples include:

• The departure of somone I thought was permananty in my life;
• The reality of inheriting mom's house and losing it through foreclosure;
• Thoughts of finding myself "working for the man" to survive began to creep back in;
• Finding myself back in a relationship that I swore would NEVER happen.
• Inheriting more of Dad's illnesses despite my very different lifestyle;
• After the "event" clearly I had no intention of permitting myself to become part of "a couple".

Yet, here I am. Virtually every one of the "NEVER"s were broken.

The only resolution I can glean from this is never say never.