Meet Your Fellow Belly: About SAM

Sam is my pen name. In my published works I use my legal name Marcelle. (Mar-sell)

You can call me either. Or make up a name. Turnip is good. Or guacamole.

After a year of soul-searching through writing on my original blog Everyday Aspergers, I came to a fantastic self-realization that I am enough and everyone else is enough!

Through writing my truth, I experienced wonderful healings and was the receiver of remarkable support and love.

This blog, Belly of a Star, is the second-half of my journey. The first was the finding of self, so I could love self; the second the dissolving of self, so I can embrace the all. Here I will be serious, funny, quirky, and frankly un-wordly. And I will attempt to be authentic.

It’s a conundrum this life, and I have stopped searching for reasons and answers, and simply accepted I am not and I know not. I write because I have a burning passion to write. This blog is for me, in the sense that I feel release in having pulled out what is inside and seemingly poured through. And it is not for me, as I choose not to gain anything from this except the journey itself.

When I am reading and writing, like most of my day, I am practicing mindfulness, loving-kindness, compassion, and understanding. I continue to grow in my love for this life and all that is a part of my world I can comprehend and that I cannot comprehend.

I am ever so thankful for the beautiful people I met during my Everyday blogging and will never be able to express in words how their being-ness enabled me to be. They are, my found sisters and brothers, the essential key to my happiness. Bright stars filled with love.

If we are just meeting, I invite you to explore here, and/or my other blog. I really don’t know more than anyone—I know this though: my brain will explode if I don’t share. And that can get messy.

Your forever friend, from the day we met,

Sam

“Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

~ Sergio Toporek