Giving thanks
Again with the blog-break! Oy! Seriously, there’s always a reason (excuse?), and though I’ve written several posts that haven’t made it here yet, whether due to time or health or time or mood or time, my hope is to get more regular in the coming new year. I was working on a post recently that, while important, was bringing me down a bit. That one is regarding an an issue I still need to come to terms with, and will likely continue working on the draft for a future post, but I found that it was clogging the works and not serving me well with regard to getting something out.
So instead I’m turning my thoughts to things that make me happy. On top of the winter solstice holidays (Yule, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Eid al-Fitr, St.Lucia Day, or whatever your celebration) going on, we in the U.S. recently celebrated our Thanksgiving holiday, held the fourth Thursday in November. It’s one of my favorite holidays, though it’s slowly being swallowed by the juggernaut of an ever expanding Christmas season, and aside from the myth we were fed as schoolchildren about the origins of the holiday, I choose to celebrate it in the exact interpretation of its name, giving thanks. So in the spirit of Thanksgiving, and of the winter solstice (the return of the light – hallelujah, indeed!) and the coming turn to a new calendar year, here are just a few of the things I give thanks for daily:
Look out, 2016!
loved all those beautiful pictures. Did not realize until halfway down I could hover over and they had descriptions, so I went back through them again slowly. Love the hoola girl
Ooo, now I have to go through and label all of them…maybe later! 😉 Thanks, Bliss!
Great montage of photos! I know about those topics you want to blog about but that get you down. Since my parents read my blog and would get worried about me, I try not to post most of those. 😉
Thanks, Michelle – it was hard to stop with the photos! 🙂 And though sadly I don’t have the same concern, it’s still a delicate balance of share vs. whine. Keeping perspective (and always optimistically realistic) as I research and find out more about my self – body and mind – and not losing faith that it’s all going to work out. Still, it’s easy to get down in the dumps. But you never know what might help someone else’s journey, and I’m my own experiment here. It’s been an interesting ride so far.
Gorgeous photo montage, Mo. I can SO understand why you feel grateful for this dear farm of yours and all your animal companions. And I get it, too, about walking the fine line between gratitude and whine–is there some middle ground between Pollyanna optimism and wallowing in hard reality? If so, I myself find it hard to locate sometimes.