The Plunge

Having a blog is a little like having a journal with the possibility that a few or a lot of people will read your entries. Yikes...scary, at best! But, here is what I propose to follow through with...Honesty!

I imagine the beginning of this journey to be a lot like the first time I went with my friends to the local pool and decided on my own that I wanted to dive off the high board. The climb up the ladder, hands wet and slippery, but still able to hold suction to make it to the top. The look down after the climb, the measuring of how many skips to the end of the board and finally the thought of actually executing the swan dive of my dreams creating marginal water rising off pool surface. Yes, this is identical to the emotional and physical nausea I self induced on that day in childhood past.

How was that actual dive? The same as this will be...Not pretty and not with the tiniest of splashes. Oh no, as I prepare myself to make these hopeful, pithy words come to life, I want you all to know that I intend to purposely go in body and arms flailing wildly, weaving my spastic torso through the air like a freak who has never learned how to swim! In other words, water will cover all the nearby swimmers and onlookers!

Oh, it's on...Taking the plunge!!!