My coworkers like to call me “Jack” because I have the talent to do various things. For example, I know my way around a table saw and can cut wood and use a diamond blade on a wet saw to cut tile. I’ve built a deck and helped install plumbing in my home while I was married, I know how to crochet and also cut my hair, you get the idea.
While I have various skills, I’m also a wealth of knowledge, and that’s not only due to schooling, it is mostly life that has taught me.
I’ve been through experiences of life and death. I’ve had many experiences in my life.
My one son is on the spectrum, and he is older and wants to do things but hasn’t the common sense of a person his age and its battle. My other son is far more mature than his age and with that brings struggles too. In therapy, I’ve learned that while I may struggle with raising my sons, I’ll get through it, as I have with all of my other struggles.
Though I continue to work on these life issues in therapy to excel despite my past, the one thing I am learning about myself is: through my journey of trying to help my son find his path, I have learned I am also lost. Treatment is an on-going process of learning and growing. A process that is now part of who I am and makes up my life story.
I keep pushing forward, trying to find myself and learning new skills and acquiring new knowledge along the way. When I sit and think, what good is all of this knowledge and skill if it doesn’t get me anywhere? I realize it makes me a better person for me. I also know I keep learning and acquiring new skills to find myself. I feel there is something 
more waiting for me, somewhere I am supposed to be or something I am supposed to be doing, but this “something” hasn’t revealed itself to me yet. Have you ever felt this?
I am not sure if you have noticed, but my title is in-line with a song – that’s because when people talk to me, or I go through something, lyrics come to mind.
While I find myself asking, “What am I supposed to be doing in this world?” I also asked myself, “what do I know about me?” I know when I think of something, an immediate connecting thought comes to mind, and this is how I process things. Today, as I’m sitting here thinking of my life, I thought about being tossed around so much by different people and issues. These various thoughts made me remember the rocks in my brother’s old “rock tumbler,” which brought the song “Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan to my mind, and that, my friends, is how I came up with the title and contents of this blog.
I know for sure, I am educated both by public schools and the “school of hard knocks.” I know I am creative, compassionate, empathetic, and loyal. I also know I can figure out anything thrown at me, though sometimes it may take a minute for me to step back and look at the whole picture from the outside before deriving an answer. The answer isn’t about “who you are”; it is about “who you can become.”
Recently, I’ve been going through things, like the loss of a job due to Covid-19. Uncertainty, worries about the future all due to Covid-19 and the election as many are, and I realized life keeps rolling and tumbling me just like those old rocks. And then I discovered so many of us have been, and continue to be, rumbled over the years. And all of this tumbling and rumbling has now allowed each of us to show our uniqueness and shine.
We have come out of that 
“rock tumbler” with so many facets, and just like that, I realized – I am The “Multifaceted Mom,” and like any other time or issue, I will come through this a better person with more sparkle than ever.
What have you been through lately? What have you overcome in the past? What facets of you emerged in your tumbling experience? I would love to know.
Until then…
Keep Sparkling~
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