Who Am I?

In the following posts I hope to retrace the steps of my life to explain how it is I came to be sitting here, now, as a 31 year old post-bac student in the Secondary Ed program at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, USA. I've often wondered at the present and how I got here. Is life a series of random  events tossing us this way and that? Am I am where I am today because of my race, gender, sexual preference, age, etc. You hear that a lot. But when I slow down and reflect, I have perfect certainty that life is not random but that each moment is a choice to move toward one's fully realized self--their destiny; or away from it. There are certainly guides along the path of life. After all it would be foolish not to recognize how many wonderful people are bumping into each other out here and that any full self reflection will uncover just how much other's actually shape who we are.

I'm going to start with my childhood and family which I have to admit I lucked out on. I was blessed with a loving and caring family that told me from as early as I can remember two things. 1. Jesus loves me. and 2. I can be anything I want. I have doubted those two things as much as anything else in life, but as I continue to traverse the path of life, I continually test these assertions in as reasonable ways as I know how and I find that indeed, my parents were on to something.

In this self identity project I want to examine one moment of time and how that moment of time has unfolded and created has shaped where I am today and most importantly where I am going in the future.