Maya

Maya was a figment of my imagination.  Maya is a woman who emerged from a long~term marriage that saw May lying broken and bleeding as she looked around at the destruction of what used to be her excellent life.  Maya is who rose from those ashes.  Maya is the Phoenix.  I became Maya. 

I took wrong turns, I ranted and raved and raged, crying myself voiceless in the night.  It was only the morning light that brought the sweet, sad eyes of three children who were watching in fear for the return of their tender and soft mama.  I caught my reflection in those mirrors and turned myself around. 

I followed paths of pathos.  I became a childbirth educator, a doula, I took every class that the local community college gave on everything from computers to hairdressing and massage.  I needed to fill myself with service. I know that I took the hard road and I have come out of the other end, scarred but unafraid. 

It is with this gained knowledge that I write.  I can give good advice about what NOT to do, how to focus on what really counts and how to find an amazing woman living in your skin. 

I have three grown children and one young foster son.  I hope that I never have all of the answers because life is so delicious as it comes served to us.  I have been gifted with Forrest Gump’s luck of finding myself in the oddest of places, with the most intriguing of people and coming out with memories intact where they could easily be hazy. 

I love my life.  I love your life.  I breathe every single breath in gratitude and always try to attain grace.  I believe in the intrinsic goodness of people, even ex husbands and the other women, and I will always try to find that. I’m an eternal optimist, I always see the bright side ~ darkness has never been part of my makeup.  I love my freedom and I love my choices.  I am kind, spontaneous and above all, I believe in angels. 

I believe that we all have choices and that we need to visualize a perfect life ahead of us to be able to move through with our dignity intact.  I believe that what we say and do now will reflect on us in hindsight and that we want to feel pride in how we managed our choices.  I believe that there is nothing that we cannot do.  There is a sisterhood that lies in the rivers and chasms of the earth that connects us all and so long as we keep our hands in that flow, we will not only survive, we will thrive.

Thank you for entering into my world.  Namaste.

~Maya~