Cissy, thanks so much for your beautiful words and insight. I love the way you capture the human condition in all its light and shadow. Yes, people can change and do. Yes, hurt people hurt people. In the end, though, I am the only one I can change. I am the only one who can change my own story and not allow my pain to define me. I am the only one who can vow not to hurt others the way I have been hurt. There is so much hope and truth in the following: "I have always been and will remain — underneath it all. Dirt is older than pain. The soil, the land, the earth, my soul is ever present for the returning to." Thank you for sharing your "wobbly" changing voice with us!