When starting a fire, there are some necessities:
1) Something to burn (paper, wood, witches)
2) Something to create a spark (matches, flint and steel, or a bow if you happen to be a boyscout)
Between work, marriage, family and everyday experiences, I've got plenty of fuel.
Father: worked two jobs for most of his life to support the family, but didn't give us any information on my mom's mother's status...
Mother: mentally ill (she has 'a slight case of schizophrenia' in her words) and is way codependent...
Sibling 1 (S1) has been playing the victim and making questionable choices all his life...
Sibling 2 (S2) deaf and seems even more obtuse than could be attributed to deafness...
Sibling 3 (S3) Developmentally Disabled, operates at the level of a seven year old, and has been kicked out of the house he's spent most of his life in by my mother...
Sibling 4 (S4) one of the best people I know...
Me (S5, I guess)
Sibling 6 (S6) also one of the best people I know... and is also absolutely convinced of the rightness of his opinions...
Sibling 7 (S7) the baby of the family, the only girl, a drug addict, the mother of four children by four different fathers and has been sponging off the parents since she moved out at about the age of 16 (17?)
Wife?
Offspring 1 (O1) hugely imaginative and has an incredible vocabulary and use of language
Offspring 2 (O2) very smart, very confident, quite physical and knows just how to push her older sister's buttons...
Offspring 3 (O3) has skin issues, is starting to engage with the world, and needs to start sleeping through the night
So the spark?
It's the need to explore my own thoughts and get stuff out that otherwise I'd probably just end up obsessing over.
So all in all, probably the same stuff everybody has.
I just need to decide who I know that will get to know about this...
Feedback is a good thing, but how open will I be knowing people who know me might be reading...
Thanks, Anna...
