Photo Essay (Sorta) - "Why I Have An Insanely Good Life"

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I don't seem to write much lately. Coupled with the fact that I lack a decent digital camera, it makes me sort of hesitant to attempt this particular mode of self expression, but I hope that my Cellar family will forgive the artistic shortcomings and share with me what I want to demonstrate in this thread.

I have an enviable life. For all of my vulgarity, obesity, poverty and lack of sophistication - I live a life that, fifteen years ago, would have seemed impossibly unattainable. My world is so rich, so rewarding, so filled with love, friends, family and purpose, that I sometimes become overwhelmed.

Let me start with my wife. She is beautiful, intelligent beyond all reason, dynamic, frustrating, stimulating. She draws both men and women to her like moths to a porch light. I look at these pictures and wonder what the hell she's doing with the likes of me...

Here we are at a friend's recently purchased bar/pizza place, a greasy dive in a bad part of town...and it is perfect. The second pic is her at our last Samhain open ritual, a goddess incarnate, a priestess, witch, educator and friend to the otherwise friendless. Wow.