Sometimes in life, you have to get through something pretty bad to get through to something pretty great . . . Per aspera, ad astra!!! ✰✰✰

I am a work in progress, racing some unseen clocks on an unknown course towards an uncertain future and shifting goals. But I'm making good time & progress!

It sounds weird like that, but it is true. Ummmm, I am trying to be honest with myself, trying to learn to love me for the same things other people see in me. I'm great with kids & animals. I laugh a lot, because I find that response pretty fitting. I love nature, and it pushes me to earn money to travel. I sometimes wish I had pursued arts more when I was younger, but aesthetics run in these amazing currents all around me. I have a big heart, and my emotions/passions run broad and deep.

I love being a teacher/coach. I think I could have been happy in medicine, if I hadn't sucked at math.

I like to be working a job where I feel productive, and don't care if it is hard work. Money is