I began this year with a trip to San Fransisco, California that I'd wanted to take for a long time. I enjoyed four of the happiest days of my life. What I've discovered is that the Cali trip has set a precedence for the months (...and hopefully years) that followed. In the time since January, I've lived a more wide open, authentic life than ever. I've added many more of those "happiest days" doing things I wanted, trying new things and truly focusing on having meaningful, conscious relationships with those I love. It's strange, in a wonderful kind of way, to meet "Amy Full-Throttle" but that's exactly what it feels like. It's also scary and exciting trying things that I'd been afraid to do before or simply never got around to/was allowed to as a child (...which truth be told usually involve getting dirty). I didn't know my life could be like this, I could be like this, but now that it's happening I wonder what took me so long to get here! I have Mama Schaefer in my ear constantly telling me, "Don't wait", the way she did before she died. Silently, in my mind I promise her I won't. Why are we here if not to live a life wide open, as full of love and experiences as we can possibly manage? For me that answer is simple...this is exactly why I'm here and it's long overdue!
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I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was only nineteen, I moved away and became a military wife. My only aspiration at that tender time in my life was to create an adult life that "fixed" all of the "injustices" of my childhood. Secretly, however, I wanted to reach for the sky! I wanted to be a writer and find ways to "save the world" (my mother used to say, "You have Save the World Syndrome".). Mostly, I wanted to matter. Archives
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