Walking through the wonderful Salisbury Zoo with Dear Old Dad marveling at the sounds the new hearing aids pick up and viewing everything through my camera lens I realized that it has been a long time – a very long time – since I have felt this. . . Good. After ten years of surgeries, addictions, joy, unendurable pain and crushing heartbreak, I am standing on my own two feet one hundred and twenty-something pounds lighter ready for the next adventure and I can still see the beauty of the world around me.

I am going to kick ass in 2020.

Dear Old Dad agrees. So does the wolf.