I've never been so long without visiting a trainer. Yet somehow it feels right and good that it should be so. I...It's like reaching deep inside and further outside, like the roots of a young tree.

This strange wonderful world has tossed challenges at me I had never expected. Some...I still don't know how to answer. But others have taught me of virtue and strength and will and, most importantly...of acceptance.

Even acceptance of rifts that may never be spanned or scars never completely healed.