Here was my reply to here:
I am giggling...I think I may have to print out Dorothy and keep her close by. You said above "being true to what you are without the nod to outer pressures and misinterpretations." I left my own business that I had co-founded, co-owned and co-operated to become a teacher in a state institution. I knew there were lessons to be learned - one of which was this: "Compliance without Conformity." Where this quote came from is altogether another story, but I have kept these words close.
Now, I am feeling naked - I've shed the old coat. I am reminded of one of my best skinny dips in Canada.
I stood in my birthday suit, sang my thanks to the glacial lake I stood before and the world around it, and then dove in. It was the best baptism ever. I filled my water bottle from that lake before I left, and never let the water completely run out until I lost the water bottle. I drank the essence of that lake and swim for many, many months.
My present dive has been completed. I am swimming in another lake now, with the same gratitude and the same feeling of nakedness - I am being baptized and welcomed.
Lordy - the fullness is overwhelming in the most bittersweet, wonderful way. If I were anymore grateful, I would explode and you would have to wipe pieces of me off your lawn ornaments - or perhaps just let me be...and I am smiling at the thought of that.
Quack-Quack!
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