New LOGO!!

While I do love the uniqueness of my name, I didn't choose the title "My Name is Jacy" to plaster me, myself and I all over the blog. In all truthfulness, I chose this title because I have finally arrived to a place, after this whole mess started 2 years ago, where I am down right PROUD to be Jacy again! I am finally willing and able to humbly accept all that comes with those 4 simple words- the undeniably beautiful, the really really excruciatingly painful and everything else in between.

What once was a name that I loathed being tied to-- because it meant that my life was the one that fell apart... that I was going to be a single mom raising my son in a broken home... that my name would be gossiped about for all the reasons why my marriage must have failed... that I must have been a cold, nonsexual, depriving, witchy wife... that I was a complete and utter loser who couldn't maintain a marriage-- is no longer that. For in its place my name has become one that I am honored to call my own. YES!

In the logo you'll also see a water lily... WHY? Because a water lily grows from deep below the surface, amidst the murk and muck of a slimy, scummy pond floor and into an object of magnificent beauty. Now, I am in no way pretending to be or claiming to be that stunning fully-bloomed lily just yet (believe me, I am FAR from it), but I am ever-so-steadily striving to get there. I make mistakes all the darn time and I am being humbled in more ways than I ever thought I could be, BUT I will ALWAYS try to maintain my dignity through this whole process of uncertainty with only one goal in mind... to keep on blooming, no matter how difficult it may be at times.

I guess I could say that this logo represents my FEAT thus far, as well as the place I eventually hope to get to. I am not dead. I am no longer floundering beneath the surface. I am overcoming. I am rising above. I am evolving.

The symbolism of this logo was chosen with the intent of {hopefully} relating to all of you, regardless of where you are in your life in this very moment, too. I think its simplistic truth is universal. So it is my hope that when you come here from now on, you'll take a moment to reflect on the importance of YOU, replacing my name with your own name in "MY NAME IS.....", and doing it with nothing but confidence, hope, dignity and pride; always remembering that no matter what life throws at you, no matter how horrific it may seem, no matter how deep in the muck you feel... just as a water lily does... YOU, too, can and will rise out of the murky water and into something simply exquisite.

** CREDIT for this awesome creation goes to my totally cool and talented pal, ALISHA, over at Twenty2Pixels.