I have neither sought , nor received any exemptions from the trials of life….. and I have the scars mentally and physically to prove it.

I will not pretend that a happy face and a pleasant demeanor greeted those encumbrances….. but having weathered them and the lessons about life they offered, they have become valuable resources and references.

It is a privilege and learned mindset to accept things and dismiss those initial emotional assessments as distractions that can blur the necessity of their “planned arrival”…. (Because they were) planned….  Not always by me.

I have neither sought nor received any exemptions from the flagallents of life and grateful for each and every one of those stripes.

oboe the Hobo

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