I cannot write of my life’s saga and leave out the whole intolerable truth, its violence, savagery, beauty, its immensity, those lost, loved, and found. It is a story as uniquely disturbing as it is beautiful, a life that has fallen short of once ambitious goals. It started in an orphanage, has been lived on land, on sea, and in the air. But really, it begins here, on the page. I'm grateful for the blank space to fill.