09/20/2025
Yesterday was a wonderful and relaxing day after a very busy weekâŚand I am so glad I decided to keep my birthday celebrations low key and minimal.
I did spend some time with my beautiful and insightful friend, Simone.
As we were catching up, she said, you have a story-book lifeâŚwhich at first made me gasp with, yes, and then I burst out laughing at the absurdity of it.
While I feel like NOW I am getting to the good partâŚwow, itâs been a wild ride, with plenty of pain, obstacles, failures, disappointments, and heartache.
And before I even finished that breath and thought, I burst out laughing for several minutes at the absurdity of my life being a story-book life.
It does NOT feel that wayâŚnot by a long shot.
Simone added, we just donât know the genre yet.
Which had me laughing harder and longer.
Because, THAT is the truth.
If it ended right now, it would probably be a twisted psychological thriller.
(Thankfully itâs not ending anytime soon, God Willing!)
After my laughing fit subsided, Simone said, your origin story/prologue is now complete.
The REAL story is just beginning.
And THAT is the Truth that brought me into awe and stillness.
It really and truly feels like the back story that made the future super hero version of Emily Ruth Crinklaw has FINALLY finally finally come to a close.
I can breathe.
And what comes next are all the exciting adventures that everyone wants to read about and watch. Including me.
I literally feel like I am living the first pages of a new and exciting novel, where the writer is introducing the reader to the main characters and orienting her to the adventure in which they are about to share.
I am so ready for the Batmobile, Bat cave, elegant parties at Wane Manor, Bat signal, cleaning up Gotham part of my story.
And it really is just beginning!
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