Cheryl Drury

I don't mean to sound so heady because this is actually really about my heart.

But these things happen because, you know, you just decide to pick up something that maybe is a little bit out of your wheelhouse.

It's amazing what it can do to your heart.

Take it out and stomp it all over.

At times.

Yeah.

Well, for a while, I thought that the road ended.

In my mind, it was like coming to a door.

But what I realized was that this reading project was just bringing me to the door so I could open it and go through.

So I don't think of this as a road that's ended.

I'm actually standing at an intersection with 45 different ways I could go.

And maybe I'll circle back and get another one later.

But right now I'm kind of sitting pondering, which one of these do I go down next?

And I'm very excited about that.

It's opening this door and I get to step through and I have this, the only way I can think of it is I have this scaffolding of what I worked so hard to learn.

And now I've got, as I walk through the door, I'm bringing all that with me and I get to hang the next things.

I know how to, I know where to put them.

And they're not just going to sit randomly.

I've got places where I can like, oh, this guy that I'm meeting in this book, I know what that's like.

And this guy also had that go on.