Beauty in the Broken Places
I'm breaking my blog silence finally. It's been an incredibly rough couple of years to say the least. My life has been turned upside down, right side up then upside down again. I think I just might be on my way up once more... I hope anyway. My heart is broken and in the process of healing, something I fear may take a lifetime. My husband and I decided to end our 24 year marriage this year. It was not an easy decision. I will not air the details here as it is no one's business but ours. From this point forward, we are concentrating on our friendship, our boys and making the best of this situation. Have you heard of the Japanese pottery art of filling broken pieces with gold to put a vessel back together? It's a practice called kintsukuroi meaning "to repair with gold." This particular art has touched me deeply. As I said, my heart is broken and it will never be the same again. The scars that life leaves behind can be devastating and ugly. I don'