A free spirit, am I.

There’s a common bond. Linking everything and everyone meaningful in my life. Yes. Yes. A spiritual connection. Going far beyond the physical. I’ve come to know this. Starting in my late 20s and early 30s. About the same time. That I began truly falling in love. With life. And declared myself a romantic idealist, a spiritual free-thinker and a political liberal. Finally. I had learned. That I am a spiritual being. Over and above the physical. Life was becoming meaningful. In a spiritual way. Not religious. But spiritual. There’s a difference. Religion is too narrow.  Too restricting. I crave and need the freedom of the spiritual dimension. --Jim Broede