I am awake, I am alive, and today I am giggling at this life I have built and the security it affords me. Worried about paying rent? Those days are behind me, it seems. As long as I am smart enough to stay on this path I have built. The keyboard I destroyed with a spilled coffee yesterday? Easily replaced today without a second thought. Soon the canopy for my new-to-me gazebo will arrive and I will have all that is required to enjoy an amazing summer in my backyard. Events are booked. Products are selling. New ideas are percolating. Others are being completed. In other words, I am enjoying the life my abusers said I could never have, the one that I wasn't smart enough to create. Yes, I smile as I sip this morning's coffee. They were wrong but I wasn't. Because I believed in me even when I didn't dare say the words out loud. Dream my child, dream. Do not let ANYONE tell you that you can't. I love you! HUGSSSSSSSS Sandi