Happy blogoversary

OK...it's been a bit over a year, but we missed the year mark, so be it.

It struck me earlier that it had been about a year since we started this little blog, and took a moment to look back at when we really did start...and doing a bit of rereading of our posts...what a year it's been.

This was my second Pesach since admitting this discovery to myself, and starting to admit it to others...again, all that talk of bondage at the seder made me smile internally a few times. And this time around, I took the opportunity to come out as kinky to 2 of my close friends. They both took it so nonchanantly...so in stride. It made me thankful to have wonderful friends. And helped me to feel a little bit more, well, normal.

So much else has happened in my own life in the past year. I started writing more, my grandfather died, LOST ended, I started a new job after a long time being severely underemployed, I moved, I had a few non-starter BDSM relationships, 1 really bad one, 1 potentially great one that we both realized wasn't able to be that which we had dreamed it could be (that kind of broke my heart--the fact it wasn't to be, not him--he was wonderful and still is. It was the right thing to end where we were...and I'm thankful every day for his ongoing friendship), a bit of fun play here and there, and a good dose of potential that's only just beginning. I tried things that I never imagined I'd dare try, and even enjoyed some of them. And I keep my eye out for more exploration in that realm...and in life.

May this be a year of new experiences, new lessons, new ideas for us all.

I'm babbling, I realize. But I want to get back to what a year this has been. And how we started around Pesach last year (I do believe it was during Pesach that Spritually Playful learned about my proclivities, Rabbi Submissive knowing for longer. She was the first person I told of my exploration, as she was the one who helped me take the first steps), and how so much of this is about freedom. We named this blog for a reason...and it is through our recognition that returning to bondage, by choice, gives us so much of the freedom we all seek.

As we enter this Shabbat of Pesach, I hope that we all find the peace--the shleimut--that comes from acceptance of who we are. Of what we are becoming in the constant process of life.

And that we all find others who help us to complete that journey.

Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach!!