"My name is Isobel... married to myself"

Sorry about the relative inactivity lately. Life outside the internet has been quite the whirlwind!

I am a bit weary but optimistic about the approaching new year. 2007 wasn't a very good year for me, in material terms, but I learned a lot.
A lot of textural, intuitive learnings. My skill at seeing the world and my approach to it have improved vastly. Also, shoring up some of my philosophical ideas, revisiting some old ground to make the structure stronger. Going back to some of the Old Masters in my pantheon, so to speak.

I need the spiritual body to be stronger in order to be more fearless.
To replace shells and shields with innate toughness. And it's happening gradually.
I've discovered that my greatest joys come from helping other people, and especially if I can inspire them.
That sounds corny, I know, but it's more subtle than that. I mean that in terms of the approach to interaction with others.
I don't like serving others. It doesn't suit me. And I don't like leading others. It feels icky to me.
Though in some ways, I am a person with a mission, I don't have a lot of specific plans for my life, and I don't really want any.
But in my later years, I've realized how I'd prefer to integrate with the world of people, and it's my own way.
Like a wandering ronin who gets called in to take out the town bully. Or a doctor getting called in to handle an epidemic.
Or a muse who finds an artist who needs inspiration to go on. This is what I was made to do here.

This is probably why formality and large institutions seem anathemic to me. I don't want to be part of an organic whole.
I want to complete myself and help others do the same. It's all related. All the themes in my life, they sort of make sense to me now.
At least more than they ever have.

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A picture sometimes is worth a thousand words, indeed.

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And here he uses a slightly corny way to make a very subtle point.