A favorite word. The English Dictionary definition is “shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness”. Gumption has enabled me to develop tremendous skills of resiliency in encountering, maneuvering through and around many obstacles involving bewildering people, places, and associated traumas. The themes are consistent. I understand connecting the dots and this lifetime of untraditional relationships and complicated set of contracts, karmic reckoning, and clearing. To use the words of a lecturer whose name I do not remember, “With a sword of steely intention and shield of self-determination”, I am doing the job and evolving!