I admire you and your strength! You are an inspiration to those of us still trying to find our way. I really like your line: "we each have two lives: one we're given and the other one we make". I hope you don't mind me stealing it for my personal use!
Thank you (obviously you glossed over my many weak posts these past months!) . And be my guest. Heck, I stole it. I think I heard before, but basically I stole it from Mary Chapin Carpenter's song "The Hard Way."
Originally Posted By: SoldierDad
God Bless, and may 2010 be a prosperous year for you.
Thank you. And for you. And for us all.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
. And be my guest. Heck, 
