Hitting the Bottom - Getting back up...

A long journey...a super long exhausting road. The type of road that you travel that has no shoulders, rest stops or pull overs and all you really need to do is take a shit. We have all traveled long and windy roads. The bumpy, make your mouth water from an impending vomit types of roads that take us to places that we might not have otherwise traversed...but eventually...had to. Taking the left turn instead of the right. Turning around and going in a different direction than what that lady on your GPS instructed us to do. We are all on a quest to get to a certain place that we might not have known we were expected. I was expected to be here...right here where I am right now. It's been an enduring and difficult few years for us. Between failing finances, foreclosures, job lay offs, health issues, death,
bankruptcy....we are finally pulling ourselves out of any of that obscurity, and pressing on. We have an amazing support system around us. We have family and friends that love and think of us often. People ask, "how the hell do you do it?" well, it's simple really...the one thing that has remained constant through all of our trials and tribulations is our love for each other. Every one of us has an amazing amount of love, respect, devotion, and admiration for one another. This is not to say that we don't get ugly...yes, we disagree, we cry, we put on our arguing faces, we get angry, we scream, we yell...but, as naive as this may sound, John had it right...love really is all you need. I truly know that in my heart of hearts, that we are sometimes knocked flat on our asses when change needs to be made. We are awakened to what is truly in store for us, and sometimes, because we fail to listen, it hurts like a mother fucker. We were hurting for a while, but slowly, the hurt has faded and we are on the path to healing.