And here we go...

​T.J. Garrison May 08, 2012 In this blog, I hope to occasionally give a little insight into what drove me (temporary craziness?) and inspired me (love of possibilites) to scribble your stories. I say your stories because they are written for you. To enjoy, to love, to hate, to escape life for a paragraph or a page, or to eat up that last bit of available memory on your mean aunt's electronic reading device. Inink about your lavorite place to escape. Thats what I want to share with you. One of my favorite means of escape is on the stern platform of a dive boat. Though strapping on enough lead weight to sink a body to meet whatever is at the bottom of the ocean may not conjure images of fun for some, that plattorm is my trapdoor to an allen world tor us land monals. Allen enougn that i'm Torced tO reorient my view when I'm down there. On the surface, things in life that bothers us are often larger-than-life and in-your-face close. Everything underwater however IS about 33 percent bigger and closer. Well, not reallv. it's just an underwater illusion when vou re looking througn a dive mask. but it vou take a moment tO observe, you'll begin to see wondrous things in the rocky coral or beyond that sand ridge. Things that you might not have notice on Tirst lOOK, ...causing you to retocus