Sonnjea 2.0

I’ve had blogs in the past, but I don’t remember how I kicked things off. Like, do I write a “hello! I’m Sonnjea!” post? Or just jump right in? Or some combo thereof? I guess I’ll explain the blog name and that should suffice for post numero uno.  Sonnjea 2.0 isn’t accurate because I’m actually on about the 27th incarnation of myself, but 27.0 sounds lame. And everybody sort of accepts that 2.0 implies new and improved and that’s what I am. Well, improved, anyway. I’m faaaar from new. As a human, I’ve got five+ decades under my belt. As a Buddhist, about 11 years. Probably that’s when the journey to 2.0ness officially began, but it wasn’t until five years ago this month that I started to consciously strip away all the layers of fear and insecurity and arrogance and judginess and just utter crap that I had been accumulating. I was like a hoarder of bad personality traits. That’s where the “recovering hot mess” part of the blog name comes in. And now, time for a Buddhist sidenote…  The