My name is Kathleen, and I was born in Los Angeles within a family struggling with addiction issues of different forms. My mother was a registered nurse working graveyard shift with a dependence on Demerol. She stole the drug from work, self-medicating to deal with her issues & yet undiagnosed schizophrenia. My mother, Christmas 1970 My father had issues with control, money, and keeping his house in order. Many weekends, he drove across the border in Tijuana to purchase baby Amazon parrots and smuggled them back to Los Angeles stashed underneath the backseat of his convertible 69" Karmann Ghia. He did this on a regular basis, and I now realize that back home, he raised the them & sold the adult birds for profit. My first memory ever is lying down in my crib as an infant, with the white bars surroundin...
I believe that we all come to this planet to do three things only. Love, Forgive, and Create. In all forms and ways possible, we come to this planet to do just these three things. LOVE- Express, feel, give and receive it. Love can come in many forms, let it start with self love. FORGIVE- Forgiveness of self and others. Letting go of the past. CREATE- Everything is a creation, and someone was behind that creation. What did you come here to create?