“I am an alchemist. I have spent my adult life within the fires of transformation, embers low in quiet pauses but most often ablaze with burning desire to free myself from self-deprecating beliefs, feelings and actions in moments of alchemy. When I moved away from the fire, it was still present as I would blow smoke towards me in the form of memories that often choked the voice which was silently screaming from deep within…be free. Speak your truth. Fire, ever present. This fire remains lit and it is tended to, but now with great care and love, as this fire is the fire that has set my soul-self free to rise and be…me.”