Walls and windows.

I hadn't intended my last post to be any great revelation, but I've received a number of responses from folks that have me looking inward even deeper. One dear friend commented that at times (dating back to our Vassar days together), she's been frustrated by my relentlessly positive attitude, and suggested that this sunny outlook may, in fact, be a shield I use to keep people from getting too close to me. I need to think about this some more, but it may be one of the sharpest insights anyone's ever offered into my psyche.

I don't really intend for this blog to be all -- or even mostly -- about my disabilities. I'd sort of conceived it as a place for me to write about all of my interests and observations, and a springboard for further discussion. But I expect I'll have more to say on this very personal subject, and hope that by blogging about it, I'll learn to open up about it in a different way than I'm used to.