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Archive: September 16th, 2007

September 16, 2007: Around Toronto…

 

  I am always amazed, when I visit this city, at the feelings I get while walking around.  So many memories…so many stories.  I honestly never believed I would leave Toronto.  I don’t think for that matter that I ever thought I would survive long enough to see my way back home…back to the states.  There were certainly times that Emmanuel and I wondered if we would make it to the next day let alone the next year.  Those were crazy days.  They were real though.  They remind me of how much I appreciate my freedom today.  How much I appreciate life, family, friendships, and love. 

  I went out tonight to get a bite to eat and ran into an old friend.  He showed me a bunch of his photos from the last few years.  It looks like he has been keeping busy working with some local charities…fund raisers.  He reminded me of the time when we used to all live on Mutual Street here in Toronto.  Nine of us?  Something like that.  Probably 7 too many!  They were amazing times.  A lot of pain and grief…a lot of laughter and happiness.  They were certainly the over-used phrase "best of times and worst of times".  Rivers of tears flowed in that house…rivers of laughter flowed from that house.  I smile though when i think about it.  No matter how difficult those times were…no matter how insane life became – we had each other.  We had people who loved us…people who cared.  And in the end…that is all that matters.  Everything else – it will pass.  No matter how difficult life is…no matter how dark it becomes…it will get better.

  Now I look back at the journal…years and years of life gone by.  Yeesh what an amazing journey.  What an amazing story.  I sometimes look back over these pages and shake my head in disbelief.  Then I smile…laugh a little.  And sigh.  The good kind of sigh…the kind when you feel like everything is going to be okay.  🙂  I am always amazed, when I visit this city, at the feelings I get.

  Few people are given the chance to live twice.  I am blessed enough to have been given that chance.