This past year I willingly said goodbye to a part of my life that defined my very core.  A career that took nearly half my life to cultivate.  It was intense and stressful; it was creative and imaginative; strategic and calculated.  It was layered.  It challenged me, inspired me, stretched and pulled me in directions I never could have dreamed.  It reinforced my values and tested my instincts.  I was building a marketing firm from the ground up.  I wasn’t its Founder, but I was there from its founding year, feeling the currents of success and failure just the same.  I needed its Closure, yet I felt secure within…