a-musing-lee twin reflections

As I celebrate another year in life and reflect over the last few months of thoughts and actions, I continue evaluating my path. As a new year begins, we all tend to think about changes we can make and setting new goals. For those that know me well, know that for the last few years, September ushers in the commencement of three to six months of reflection, assessment and contemplation of the past, the present and the future. It propels me to take action and discover new depths as I think about what is yet to come and attempt to sketch out a plan of action for what the next chapter in my book of life will look like as I move forward. As I continue with this process, I came across some notes I had made a few years ago that still apply in many ways, so I figured I would rework them into this particular post. Listed below is the attempt to work through the chaos of my thoughts, the discovery of myself and the actions I would like to follow in the coming year. I am not typicall...

As I, or "we" celebrate the day we took our first breath on this earth, I reflect a little more on my other half and the fact that I am part of a "set" or "pair". My other half being my identical, mirror image, twin sister. Yes, I am a twin, a set of sisters.  Yes, we look alike, I have a "double", but there is no "clone".  I am me, she is she. We are not one, we are not three, but she is a lot like me.  We are similar in many ways, but we each have particular personality traits that make us unique. It seems peculiar to say that we are our own individual, but it's true, we are, even if the majority of our lives we have been referred to as more aptly, the "twins". I understand that being a twin is unique, not as rare with the help of science now days, but still, just plain different, so questions are going to be asked and I laugh at the questions that inevitably come when one learns that I am a twin. I know other ...