Happy Belated Thanksgiving! 2022 Edition

Hi team,

I hope you all had a nice holiday last week with enjoyable food and company!

It's time to reflect on the things for which I'm particularly thankful this year.

They are:

• My healthy, loving, sweet animals.
• The abundance and generosity of plants, flowers, birds, squirrels, chipmunks, foxes, deer, and all the living things I can see and enjoy from the windows of my home.
• My home, where I feel peaceful, grounded, content, and safe.
• Finally some degree of relaxation of our pandemic precautions due to multiple vaccines and boosters as well as the relief granted by the passage of time, which has made it possible to:
• See more of our friends and family.
• Travel to celebrate loved ones' weddings.
• Revisit some of our favorite places in our beloved City, with admittedly still a lot to reconnect with, someday.
• Finally enroll our Child in a sweet, cosy, welcoming, positive daycare where he can play with "the other babies."
• Podcasts that deepen my connection to my political identity, simultaneously helping me feel more informed, interested in the outside world, and connected to a community of like-minded people, especially because of the people in my life who also enjoy these podcasts.
• Finally some more time to read for leisure.
• Finally getting to go apple picking again, including taking my Child for the first (and second) time.
• Multiple outlets for support, growth, and recovery.
• Learning more and more what my boundaries are and actually learning how to set and maintain them.
• My clients and the reciprocal, life-enhancing benefits of my work.
• Opportunities to revisit one of our favorite beaches and our community pool, as well as to discover a new delightful beach where we can peddle around on Flintstone-like multi-seater bikes and watch dolphins swim, as well as already having concrete plans to return to our favorite beach next spring.

• Not to mention: Plans, multiple times postponed, to travel abroad this summer that may just actually happen this summer.
• Not to mention: Feeling hope and excitement for the next year instead of despair and dread.
• My Husband and his patience, thoughtfulness, support, creativity, hard work, and love.
• Sharing ever more of the world with my Child, including more music, stories, people, and places.
• My Child's hungry brain, sweet, joyful, and loving temperament, inventive spirit, and wonderful sense of humor, as well as absolutely every single aspect of my Child's existence and being.
• As my Child grows and becomes more of a kid than a baby, getting to introduce and deepen our practices around holidays and family traditions.
• The births of several beloved and eagerly anticipated babies, as well as a few beloved and eagerly anticipated babies to come in the new year.

And, as always:

• Anyone who reads this blog.

I hope you have this many and more things that have made you feel happy and whole this year, and even more ahead.

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