...albeit a bit battered, stooped and weathered, I'm still here...still hanging on, literally....numbed by the reality that is mine today...not certain as to my direction (an unfamiliar place for me)....but clasping the moments in time that can still speak to my heart...and wondering where in the world I will be at this time next year....yearning for the positive, hopeful, creative and capable me that still exists, but is currently buried deep within...but knowing that this, too, shall pass...