IDK that my name fits me in other's eyes... it's more of just a symbol for this person who types to you I began with SkybDark...as my sky was always very dark. I felt I had the cloud that follows someone around (especially the cartoon character?) I wanted Sky when I joined but it was taken. I didn't know the ins and outs of name choosing and such then.

At one point when I came up for air, I had a clue that I was perhaps provoking a self-fulfilling prophecy, and figured out how to get Sky after all (thus the _ ) I needed to rise above my circumstances, not be clouded by them.

I always loved the higher perspective. I used to love to take photographs from any airplanes I rode in. I was an observer on search and rescue missions (also sampling the terrain, photographing a crash site) What you see when you RISE above a situation/event is so different from the view on the ground. (Think: not seeing the forest for the trees?)

I used to climb the highest trees to the tippy top and allow the wind to blow me around. I would climb on house roofs, garages, whatever to view the world around me. I would continue to find higher and higher surfaces that I could jump from without being hurt, trying to fly and get that feeling of being free in the air.

I keep the story of the Eagle alive in my mind...and it's struggles to live (esp when it hits middle age)... how it must rely upon another at that time. How this great bird of the air, with it's exceptional sight can still lose it's focus and die if it refuses help.

The sky encompasses so many things of life....I won't elaborate here, but many of you have shared with me how you feel when visualizing being within the sky, or under the sky...surrounded by the sky... (see creative corner?)

I need the higher perspective, what better view than from the Sky? Someday I will fly away...through the sky!