Stephen King's words for destiny, for events that come together to become what is, what was meant to be, what cannot be denied and what cannot be stopped.

My older brother, Larry, who has come full circle (perhaps) and come to love me after years of apathy gifted me this computer. He taught me what little I know about it. I have taught myself a little more, but as I am so fond of repeating, I have so much more to learn. None of this could have happened without him.

Amazon, the on line super store. Send them the magic numbers, they send you the magic toys.

Kindle, the most thrilling gift yet for this wandering woman child, still eager to please, but forced by time and Ka to call them as she sees 'em. My library in one hand held wonderous device, and me being me, I will start fill it first and foremost with all things King(well, admittedly after Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture").

Stephen King, who I first discovered in the mid 1980's with "Salem' Lot" I chuckle now. My ex spouse forbid me to read when he was home. How could I have lived with such foolishness for so long? Ka, like the wind. Hard lessons learned. Now, I cannot keep up with the writings of King, but I will try, try, try. I am a voracious reader, forever trying to make up for lost time. I recall some smart ass writing somewhere "Read something other than Stephen King" Actually I have been there, done that, and until I catch up with all he has written, as Richard Bachman and himself, I will ensure my library holds all Amazon has to offer in his names.

"The Stand" was my favorite for years. I love Tom Cullen, Stu, Nick, Larry, Mother Abagail...I would read it annually as I used to read "The Hobbit Trilogy" in my youth. Later, when the DVD became available (what wonderful justice it managed to do the book!) I would watch it every time I caught a doozy of a cold, such as right now this very moment. Ka, like the wind.

I avoided "The Dark Tower" books and did not know why. I tried and failed to read them many times, as a loyal fan should do, until now. They were just too wordy, too self-important, too full of themselves...and then I gifted myself the Kindle. After crying through the inspiring "Last Lecture," I browsed the Kindle bookstore from the comfort of my home. There, I discovered that I was not alone in my difficulty with "The Dark Tower," and no wonder, as young Stephen was only 19 when he wrote the first one, and who isn't too full of themselves when they are 19? And in the bookstore, I found out the the older, wiser Stephen had revised the early books and scooped out the happy horse shit! Just in time for my Kindle & I...Ka, like the wind...I have barely taken a break from the books since I found out. They are wonderful, and encompass not only bits & pieces from "The Stand," but also, there towards the end of "Wizard and Glass" is the Emerald City, and the command to "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" I laugh aloud with glee, and order Book V, "The Wolves of Calla" before breakfast. Art imitates life & vice versa, and I learn from it all when I can do so.

Ka, like the wind...it rolls off my tongue, and around my mind...

If I hadn't had a bad marriage, to a dashing surfer,a guitar & banjo playing pretty boy with a really screwed up vision of women, I would not have recognized the quiet nobility of the hard working country man that I share my life with these days.

If I had not left my home town, I would not have appreciated it when I came back to it.

If I had not made a friend, I would not have lost a friend.

If I had not taken offense and spoken up when I saw hate, I would have repeated co dependent behavior and not acted upon anything that I had learned.

If my younger brother was not drunk with politics, and I was not caught in the heat of the fever of a summer cold, I may have repeated codependent behavior and saved a rocky friendship.

I do not deal in politics..it is not my game...my fever had me proclaim my candidate of choice, but there it is, Ka like the wind. If I had not made a friend, I would not have lost a friend, and I have learned from it, even been freed by it, and that is the truth, Ka like the wind, I am learning. All theses events come together to become what is.

Thus, it is why I am here, why I was born, to learn.