Beginnings...

Jeff Bezos confirms all too perfectly the stirring in my mind and heart, and convicts me with a gentle chide to a Princeton grad class:
"Will you follow your passion? Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?" "It is harder to be kind than clever."
Perhaps exactly what I needed, when I needed to hear it. I can answer the one and live the other, all the better for both. I have been bold and forthright without guard or reservation, and crushed, but not broken. It is harder to be kind than clever, and that is the difference between a gift and a choice as he so aptly stated. I choose to love, and I choose to be kind, in spite of what the world will do because I can, and I will succeed.
I remember now who I am, and who I was going to be.  I don't know how I forgot that, but I know how to rectify the mistake.  From this point on, I will remind myself if it takes every day to do so, that I am my father's son, my mother's son, the sum of those parts made greater knowing where I come from and who I am.
I am not afraid to fly...