I am the captain.......

I had the most amazing dream last night....outside of my usual weird and horror-filled ones.  In this particular dream, I had magic skills. Something almost went horribly wrong- something that wouldn't be able to be changed once it had happened-but I was able to use magic to make everything right again. And then I took this trip- I was flying through the air, going backwards in time, seeing myself doing everything only backwards- my kids, school, my childhood, until I was an infant. It was exhilarating!!

I realized today that if I want to be a writer I have to write...here, in my home journals, on facebook, in letters.....I have to write. It is time to begin reading all those books I have bought. I began the year with a resolution to make resolutions....only to try my hardest at whatever I endeavored to do. I still have some work to do...we all do....but I am finishing my third class in college with an A, and have begun practice writing, and am participating in several write-a-thons. I am moving into a two bedroom apartment down the hall....got a miniature schnauzer, and feel good about where my life is going, for the first time in years.

I want to share some stolen inspiration, but it has become my mantra....."I am the captain of my soul."

Invictus William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be  For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance  I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance  My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate,  How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

P.S. See the movie...it's astounding!!