I am a mother of three children married to a woman who has one son. My twins are a boy and girl who are 37 this year and my youngest is 28. I am 56 years old, African American, Native American (Cherokee and Choctaw) and white (Scottish). I have been writing since I was 11 years old but abandoned it in favor of money and following the worlds view of success. I have come a long way in understanding what a meaningful life can look like and I think I have a story that can light the way. I have written hundreds of pages but haven’t put it together. What you are reading are vignettes and the story will be shaped with your feedback about what you care to read. The concept of Love is all you need references my spiritual journey-full of confusion, belief, resistance and finally surrender, the two husbands and my wife are the mirrors through which I see myself and the pearl is a ring I wore for 25 years representing my youngest son who is my greatest teacher. He is a soldier who came back unbroken and he is not a fragile pearl.