With the move to Washington state my parents lost me until adulthood. I didn’t believe in their power any longer and I certainly didn’t trust their choices. An amazing side effect was I also didn’t believe anyone else had power over me. Definitely a gift that has two sides. And, I’m not saying I didn’t give my own power away occasionally.

At 13, I ran headfirst into the extreme highs and lows of life on Earth. I became a sports star, I started bleeding, I lost my sister and left all of my friends, and the life I was going to have with them, behind.

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This episode will give you a little background into growing up in a Navy officers home. The stories are very funny, but they are usually fueled by alcohol.

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Learning art, music, sport, humor, fair play, and love with your best friend by your side.

High highs and low lows in the preteen years. First BFF and last fairy fantasy.

Learning disabilities, school angst, parental pressures and how to build a great haunted house.

When we move across the country to the East Coast, I have my experience of of what I thought was injustice in a near-death experience, setting a mindset in stone around betrayal.

Age 4-6 were a dramatic learning curve. My father was absent, my extended family was near, but that didn’t protect me from very large lessons.

We start at the beginning with my earliest memories, the context, the emotions and my introduction to conditions.

Well Magoo, I’ve done it again. I’ve shifted from everyone else’s stories into just my own. My story is really all I have and I’m hopeful it offers you a bit of insight in some aspect of your journey down your particular road of Happy Destiny. Peace.