So it has been an age and a day since I last entered the blogosphere. It’s been something I’ve been mulling over for a few years now, but something I never did commit to due to one excuse or another that I made up along the way. I was content just being … or at least pretending like I was. Content, that is. One can’t help ‘being’. It is a requirement of life, really. Recently, though, this has changed.

As one gets older one gains some realizations. One of which is that our time is limited (for now). This gets compounded when the people we love pass on. Especially when they are particularly close to us. Priorities shift. What was once less important becomes more. What we could always just do later may just run out of that later. But all of that doesn’t matter to anyone but myself. What matters is that I am now here and, more importantly, that this is now here.