Instead of trying to post a post-ADE post (How ya like that three posts in first sentence) I want to just drop a few random post here and there. We are talking about our personal stories using this format:

Everyday…
But one day…
Because of that…
Because of that…
Because of that…
Until finally, Ever since that day…
The moral of the story…

Once upon a time there was a little boy born in a far off land. This land was suddenly thrown in upheaval and he actually once saw blood on the streets, men with guns and anger fill the air. There was cruel king who tortured his people so he could sell his oil to foreign lands. The people had had enough.

The boy’s family needed to leave because the people were so angry they forced the women to cover their faces and the people to shut their mouths and close their minds.

Everyday his mother would drag the boy to the place that would let them leave, until finally one day they ere given a ticked and told to go to a far off land. A place where they hated the people from the boy’s country. The new country loved the old king and the cheap oil, so now they were angry.

Because of that it was hard for the boys parents to fit in. They did not speak the language and had little money.
Because of that the boy often felt out of place and alone. He longed to belong, to connect, to perform, to share, to be in a community.
Because of that he ignited an inner fire that kept him warm.

Until finally he gained enough strength to become the fire and he was ready to spread it on the world and burn down to the grown and recreate both the kingdom he had fled and then one he had fled to, so that maybe there could be one kingdom.

Ever since that day, he feels alive and connected. The moral of the story is to light your own fire regardless of your circumstances, fuel it, stoke it, then let it spill beyond your mantle.

So there you have day one, activity one. More to come I am sure.