No Day Like Today

Yes, today IS the first day of the rest of your life..

...or so I hear..Soooo when I wrote this yesterday, it was my 56th birthday, and, since I am nottt so very deep-down a complete child at heart thinking about perhapsmaybesomeday becoming a grown-up, this seems like as good a time as any to create an inaugural blog to share my thoughts on..anything?

Venturing into Blogdom is a new and a little bit scary thing for me, but tremendously exciting and perhaps the start of a beautiful relationship between the World and me. Um, maybe.

Yesterday a conversation I had with my so much younger, yet wiser son led to the concept of fear and its hold on me, keeping me back from truly expressing my talents and engaging me in life to the max. This reminded me (as a HUGE movie lover) of that great couple of lines in the 1991 movie "Defending Your Life" [between Rip Torn and Albert Brooks] where they say:

Bob Diamond: Being from Earth, as you are, and using as little of your brain as you do, your life has pretty much been devoted to dealing with fear.
Daniel Miller: It has?
Bob Diamond: Well everybody on Earth deals with fear -- that's what little brains do.
Bob Diamond: ...Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything -- real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

Me: The line I absolutely LOVE the most is that last one 'but if you lift it [fear]..buddy, you're in for the ride of your life". So that's why I'm here today, doing this.

Namaste, everyone. Whatever that means for you!