This piece was my gift to everyone in my family for the Christmas of 2007. This was the last holiday season I had with my mother, so it was the last gift I gave her. I had established a sense of understanding just before my world was about to be changed forever. I was in my last year of college, I had learned so much and the world was so bright.
I thought I had it all figured out, little did I know I had merely breached the tip of the iceberg in terms of my education on this planet, in this treacherous wonderland. At some point you realize everything can be taken from you in an instant, this realization may lead you down a dark path for a while, a place unknown, you may face your own Queen of Hearts as you fight for survival. Eventually you will come full circle, you will end up where you began. And you’ll think “all that? I did all that just to get back where I started?”
The last 5 yeas I have been trying to get back to Words from Wonderland, trying to get back where I started or where I ended which was it? I’ve been trying to get back to that place of understanding I found before death showed up at my doorstep. Let us go back then, back in time, back to that place where it all made sense…