The Irony of Life

The irony of life: a game of chess guided by predictions, choices—the element of time. What makes us interesting beings is the ability to go through life unnoticed, to blend amongst the ordinary and the grand, and to camouflage a past to where no one can tell it ever existed.
 
--Excerpt from Shattered Paradise: Memoirs of a Nicaraguan War Child

At last, I have found the courage to click on the "submit for publication" button and share my childhood with a world of wonderful strangers.  Cheers to life, friends and the excitement of the unknown.  

Share your greatest achievement with me...or adventure!  It will certainly soothe my nerves :-)

The courage to tell a story!

My life and that of my family have been guided by courage and perhaps a destiny to tell a story. I must now shower with courage in an effort to tell an untold story. The type that burns within but refuses to come out. I know the courage will come, for only then will I be able to smile and say "I did it." I did what I could to help save whatever is left of our precious rain forests. Only then, would I have kept the promise I made to a starving child, who lived under less than human conditions in one of the biggest landfills of my native country of Nicaragua. "Every one tells me they're going to help, but all I really want is for people to know that I exist."

With this blog, I take the first step of courage and begin to walk without turning back towards a world unknown to many but dearly engraved within my soul.