I suppose I should keep up the tradition of summering summaries, but I find I have little to write. Not because this summer was so uneventful, but because I keep what's important inside me. I don't need to type out my thoughts, because they're already in me.

Summer of Thought and Mantra. Spine of steel. Show no fear. Leaf on the wind.

I proved things to myself. I proved things to others. I watched myself, and I watched others. I found a balance.

I found a balance.

Things hurt me, and things made me soar so high I thought I'd never come down. Through it all, I felt the rope beneath my feet, and wrapped my toes around it, and loved the wind in my hair, the fibers between my toes. Cutting wind, warming wind, it makes no difference - I love them both, for they are both me, and both mine.

My love gives me strength. My Love gives me strength.

They'd never seen anyone so excited over a green Honda.

And tomorrow, I go back. Remember, Self, you have a future. It is bright, and it is beautiful. Embrace it, good and bad. You have a spine of steel, bending, never breaking, you show no fear, not even fear of fear, you are a leaf on the wind, blowing, balancing, a plaything of fate - but you can catch the wind, and fly, or flail and despair, and fall.