"To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life."

Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't know about you, but I'm still working at "becoming" that of which I am capable -- in my case as a rider, a writer, a singer, an artist ... a human being. Life is about the journey and all its twists and turns and surprises, and how we deal with them as we move toward our destiny. This reminds me of a poem I wrote some time ago:

The Voyage

Upon life's billowing seas

My vessel is swept

Windward. I am

Storm-tossed

And swell-swallowed,

Brine-stung

And surge-whipped.

I steer my battered

But unbroken ship

Upon the crashing waves --

Afloat I remain.

My vessel, salt-stained

And wind-lashed,

Yet a survivor.

In calmer waters,

Renewed in purpose,

Resolved, am I, to press on.

The map is charted

And though off course blown,

Yet will I arrive,

It is my destiny.

Happy "becoming."

D :-)