The end chapter

[eating_peaches]

In two days, it will have been one year since I stepped into the electronic pages of this journal.

I don't know if anyone still reads this; I don't know if anyone wants to. I certainly hadn't thought of it, not until a conversation with a new-found friend reminded me of the place I left behind, and the point in my life found there.

So I took some time to read through these moments and find the pieces of what I used to be, what I am, and what I want to be. I realized something.

What I used to be, I am no longer. What I am is the result of what I used to be. And what I want to be is but another chapter in a very long book. And I can't get there until I've closed this one.

So, dear livejournal friends, I am closing the door to one world and opening another. One in which I have lain my demons to rest. One in which I am brighter, I am wiser, I am stronger, and I am at peace with myself for the first time in far too many summers and winters long since past.

I can say that now and mean it.

Thank you so much, dear, dear friends. Your presence in the darkest of hours means more than any of you will ever truly know.

I love you all.

Peace.