Education is where you often begin your journey in life in discovering who you are and where you fit in this vast, amazing and mysterious Universe. It equips you with tools and training. It can teach you what you don't like just as much as it does what you do. Your family and loved ones help shape your thinking and perspective. Experiences you seek out - further your understanding of both yourself and the world around you. Creating a life you want - one that you love and are eager to experience and that can handle the rigors of life - is up to you.

I think I am on a lifelong journey of discovering what that is, creating and adding to my life as I learn and become more the person I hoped I would be. Each discovery is a joy, as the world becomes more understandable whether it is the behavior of people or knowing a system in nature or a human-made process - learning the pattern behind it. 

About six years ago, a perceptive person I met in Atlanta, remarked that I loved to learn and had a keen curiosity about life and a great imagination. It may have been the most insightful thing anyone has ever told me - almost giving me a mirror with which I could see myself. That's one of those things about life - we cannot see ourselves, we do not know exactly how or what we say is understood or perceived, though we get some understanding over time and from the ways in which people respond. I do have a drive to learn and understand the world. I feel as though each part that I learn, becomes part of my understanding and helps me become more.