Some of us are born to privilege and others not.

Privilege is but the thin ice of life to tread with care.

Using privilege as a measure of our character is dangerous.

But the true foundation of who we are is the blood of our stock and the nature of our self acceptance.

Good, bad or indifferent we deal with the emotions of our heart

And the lot we were given in this life.

We can choose to separate ourselves from our past or we can

Choose to honor it.

But with all, life offers us the gift of inner integrity.

It is our responsibility to accept it with honor and understanding, knowing that we are all vulnerable, all imperfect and all struggling

in our own manner to protect the very fibre of life and happiness we struggle for.

Integrity is a golden yet delicate gift we can choose to live by or walk from. Never measure another’s weakness or strengths against our own. We must accept who we are and that we are all culpable of our own strengths and weaknesses.

Therefore understanding is paramount to those who are near to us and who for better or worse have lead us the path only we are responsible for following.  The importance of integrity gives us that caliber of strength to walk

a clean path in life.

Only God can be the judge of another.

None of us are better than the other.  We are all human with human fragilities.

No material can determine our joy or gratification.  It is the heart

of those who are good to us and have cared for us that determines the true wealth of life which is to be loved for who we are.

No mother, no father nor sibling nor friend or partner has any more or less of a struggle dealing with the life or situations we have been given.

Therefore let us be known for our loyalty not just to one or the another

but to all those human beings we have been gifted with in our life and  who color us in as we walk through life.

We are all one and the same. Let us not want to be different than we are but proud of the stuff we are made of and therefore let us all live in gratitude and kindness of thought.

Stand in our Truth yet be humble, always understanding that by hurting others we never fail to hurt ourselves.

But through the understanding and compassion we grow in wisdom and strength and courage within ourselves.

God doesn’t need a Plan B for your life. Hitting a setback—whether it’s your fault or someone else’s—doesn’t mean God won’t work through your life. When disaster hits, God just fits it into his plans.When someone else’s decision turns your life upside down, God uses it for his glory.When someone else’s mistake puts you in a difficult situation, God works through it anyway.When you feel like you’ve lost everything, God does the incredible so you can do the impossible. You can’t sink God’s purpose. Neither can anyone else.

Today I think how grateful I am that all that happened in my life has brought me to a beautiful new plateau of discovery, joy and reward.

May all of your days be new ones that bring beauty and new discovery and a means to understand it all.

Faith is the most powerful tool within our Beings.  It is a gift we possess and given us within our soul. The soul created by a higher power.  We all need a rope to hang on to.  An entity we believe, that no matter how difficult, unimaginable or unattainable our dreams or wishes, if we Have Faith in our desire,

It will transpire.

My father always told me, “Be careful what you wish for…”  It is an old saying and a truism.

The strengths I have always lived by are the platform of Faith, the rope of humor and the ability to visualize the dreams I hold close to my heart.

In life we sometimes struggle to climb to the highest peaks of our desires.  Sometimes it seems so far out of reach.  Occasionally we fall into a valley of disappointment.  But never despair, never give up.  Just look up and smile, stand firm in Faith, have confidence, hold on to that rope of humor, grab that scepter of positivity and believe. It might be hard, but continue to look up and climb to that plateau of your wishes. Trust in what you believe in. The power of belief is what leads to the outcome, whether positive or negative.  You will be surprised how what you wish for or fear will transpire.  So toss fear out the proverbial door like a no good thief. No matter what, there is nothing we cannot attain if we desire it strongly enough, as long as we make sure we do not hurt anyone along the way.  The rewards of Faith make it all worth every step taken.

We all choose difference means of Faith. Some in the Universe, some through a Higher Force. For me it is the great Creator of all we know and so much more within us that we don’t know.
What ever it is you wish for in life you must ask for it with Faith, conviction and understanding that you have to ability to reach it. The only enemy that can stand in one’s way is Fear. It approaches with a sinister silence like a thief in the night. Recognize Fear as a non existent entity and pitch it out like the trash that it is. By combatting and not giving it the strength this monster commands, you will kill it. Instead believe in yourself, you dreams and desires while looking to a higher power. Stand in your Truth. Know who you are and nothing will be able to crush your dreams, your Spirit and what it stands for.

I concur.  I always told my children, ‘you can do anything you wish in life as long as you don’t hurt anyone along the way’.

My life has been a series of risks as you can read in my memoir, “Seen From the Wings”, published by Amazon.  Risks that opened doors.  They ranged from new horizons of beauty and excitement and yes, some falls from which I learned, picked myself up and moved on. Risks offer an education that a lot of schooling cannot.

Two of my greatest risks opened doors to huge horizons and opportunities for new and extraordinary experiences.

Here are only two of a myriad of them.

It was late. I had just left my Italian friends at the famous San Lorenzo restaurant in the hip part of London.  I wanted to leave the so-called English Establishment I had been raised in.  I was tired of parental control.  I bought a ticket on the first plane out of London for Milan and with only $25 in my pocket. It was like jumping from a cliff.  I spent two days looking for work and was hired by a big Advertising agency. Five months later I became engaged, against my mother’s and father’s approval, to my first husband. I was 20.  That marriage produced a beautiful, wise and amazing daughter.

I divorced my first husband at twenty five on a hunch the marriage would never work.  So with bag in one hand, three year old daughter in the other and with $30K of dowery money I had saved from my parents, all carefully rapped it up in Tampons, ( there was a moratorium on bringing currency out of the Italy) I took off.  I knew this marriage had been a lesson well learned and it was time to move to new horizons.  I flew six thousand miles to California, I might add to the horror of my parents.  Again, they reminded me of the mistake I was making.  Placing my daughter in school, I made a living for us with a job directing an art gallery while using my writing skills freelancing as a journalist, which I had acquired as a sub editor for Harper’s Bazaar in London.

Nine months later on a beautiful summer evening, I left my daughter playing on the beach with neighboring friends at our house in Malibu, dressed up for a party in West Hollywood I didn’t really want to attend. I knew no-one other than the hosts.  I made up my mind, as I sat at a never ending red light.  If the light did not change in thirty seconds I would turn around and go back to bathing suits and a beach picnic with my daughter.  The light change.  The risk was open.   I took the chance and moved on.  It was at that party I met my second husband.  From that marriage came another beautiful daughter and life became a rollercoaster of roller coaster of adventure and more lessons learned.

The adventure never ceases.  Sometimes we have dreams yet the journey seems risky.  Live your dreams or you will never know.  Following my husbands passing, life was a series of ups and downs.  I told myself Never Again would I be with another.  But Again, I took a risk and allowed with trepidation an introduction to one who turned into greatest joy I have known in a long time.

Most dreams carry risks.  Standing still is the riskiest danger.  It stops us from going where we might find amazing corners to be discovered.

So step out and take the risk. May be the best you ever took. If it does not work, you learn and you are still one step further than you were before.  Have Faith, live large, enjoy the moment. And above all know the truth within you defines who you are.

You see, as the pages of my book, “Seen From The Wings” describe in ‘so many words’; we are all the same. We may come from different backgrounds but our commonality is that we are all made of the same cloth though our lives may be painted in different hues.