Got to get the hang of this click and go stuff.
4) Why now? I have a decade change birthday Monday. My dear sister-in-law brought to my attention that my memory might not last forever (thanks sis). Actually I think I needed the blogging format. I have made comments to the blogs of my precious soldiers and find it easy to just blab away.
So here it is - part of the story of my life so my kids and anyone else who is interested in a tale can access and maybe, just maybe I will stop talking about this old s*** and have it out of my head and on to paper.
My language is far from dainty. When I was going through this journey, I used the spice of salty speech and from time to time, still do. I find the language of soldiers exciting, real and it hasn't changed from WWII to now. This would not be real nor a true reflection of how I spoke at the time if I edited it. This is, after all, war and the search for spirituality. This is also not a finished book - it is a blog to put down the past into the present. Hopefully you will not be looking for perfection - it ain't here.
Friday, September 26, 2008
starting
Everyone I have ever told my "stories" to has said - I should write a book. I really don't want to sit down to a blank word document and try to start but my love of milblogs has started me on a journey of blogs taking up all of my spare time. My creditors will testify to that - what "bills to pay file?" - I have to catch up on Suspect, Bad Voodoo and Big Tobaco first. It is 0200 - too late to start with bills - tomorrow.
Why the title? Why spirituality? Why now?
1) My search for spirituality (years ago) took me around the world, by myself (female, 23 years old, alone) through the lands that now feature in "our little war", at a time that was not pre terror - I am not Eve - married to Adam - but pre mass communication. There was a time before the WWW, cell phones, etc. War was happening at the very time that I was wandering around these same lands and it was a very pivitol time in world history.
2) The word search lends the idea that I didn't know what the f*** I was looking for or where it was.
3) Spirituality, in my search, meant that I was looking for an inner experience. Life changing - enlightenment, liberation, freedom from self and above all a way out of the box the me of me was living in.
The real reason is that my son suggested it and I liked it.
Why the title? Why spirituality? Why now?
1) My search for spirituality (years ago) took me around the world, by myself (female, 23 years old, alone) through the lands that now feature in "our little war", at a time that was not pre terror - I am not Eve - married to Adam - but pre mass communication. There was a time before the WWW, cell phones, etc. War was happening at the very time that I was wandering around these same lands and it was a very pivitol time in world history.
2) The word search lends the idea that I didn't know what the f*** I was looking for or where it was.
3) Spirituality, in my search, meant that I was looking for an inner experience. Life changing - enlightenment, liberation, freedom from self and above all a way out of the box the me of me was living in.
The real reason is that my son suggested it and I liked it.
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