Catharsis

We all need some catharsis in our lives. So that is exactly what this blog will hopefully be for me. A place to purge emotions; the good, the bad, and everything in between. Sometimes the posts here will be rantings, other times it may contain long diatribes of contemplation and sometimes what's up here may not make any sense to anyone other than I. So, kindly bear that in mind, dear reader, if you choose to read the posts I make. Comments will, of course be welcomed. To me it makes little sense to keep a blog - a public diary, essentially - if you don't expect comments at least from time to time. And who knows? The comments themselves may well spark ideas for posts from me at times. I chose to call this blog "Thunder Struck" because it feels to me like I have been just that in so many ways in my life in the past five or six months. Some good, some bad, but stormy, loud, ground-shaking and electric, one and all. In that relatively short time I have lost a very close family member who in their own way very much help shape the man I am, lost a second family member who was not as close, but still loved, both to the cold clutches of death, lost my best friend in the wold because of my own bad temper and blindness, lost another very, very close friend to the same, changed spiritual paths, and reconciled with old friends I didn't expect to, learned the value of forgiveness... And there have been other things too, but some I must still place 'close to my chest' for now, for personal reasons. So, for those brave enough to subscirbe, buckle up and hold on, it's often one hell of a roller coaster ride!