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I haven't been on LJ much in the last year, because Reasons.
But here are some things I'm thinking today, about myself and all of you who are here:
1. You are all invited to my place for Thanksgiving. Yes, even you, person who immediately decided to disregard that invitation as not applying to her. Yes, I know exactly who you are.
2. In actual fact, I'll be working this Thanksgiving, but I won't really mind, I don't think. And I had an invitation from a bell choir crony to be with her family, so even though I'm alone, I know that I am actually not alone: I am merely working, and I will see my family at Christmas and friends in January.
3. A large number of things happened this year politically and globally that upset me, and a small number of things personally, and I'm not grateful for those. There are, though, things I am grateful for. And they're the next list.
Ten Things Worth Being Thankful For
1. I realized that forgiveness is sometimes an important part of my emotional processes, but that there are some things I can’t forgive without an apology. This is an awkward combination of facts, but I’m trying to make it work, and to my almost complete shock, a piece of it did work earlier this week. Now if I want to make the rest of it work I have to actually deal with emotional processing, which frankly can bite me because I hate it. But it’s easy to see my way to being grateful for this: that I am in a position to actually do the emotional processing should I choose. Not everyone has the time or the wherewithal to do it. I’m lucky.
2. I have a family, and as far as I know my family is safe and warm right now.
3. I have friends who inexplicably care about me enough to go clothes shopping with me, which I have been reliably informed is sort of like surgery without anesthetic.
4. I went to a fantastic conference this year, the American Translators Association national conference, where I met awesome people, witnessed wonderful coincidences, and met somebody who knows one of Henning Mankell’s translators. /fangirl
5. I have health insurance. And I am usually not too sick to cope. And when I am too sick to work, I get sick leave.
6. Sometimes when I try to get to know people better, it actually works. Not always, but sometimes.
7. Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh.
8. I met someone earlier this year who sort of woke me up. I’m a small person in his life, which I’m okay with, but he did a big thing for me, because I needed to wake up.
9. I’m still doing good work.
10. I’m still a Mawrter, and that will always belong to me, and it is excellent.
But here are some things I'm thinking today, about myself and all of you who are here:
1. You are all invited to my place for Thanksgiving. Yes, even you, person who immediately decided to disregard that invitation as not applying to her. Yes, I know exactly who you are.
2. In actual fact, I'll be working this Thanksgiving, but I won't really mind, I don't think. And I had an invitation from a bell choir crony to be with her family, so even though I'm alone, I know that I am actually not alone: I am merely working, and I will see my family at Christmas and friends in January.
3. A large number of things happened this year politically and globally that upset me, and a small number of things personally, and I'm not grateful for those. There are, though, things I am grateful for. And they're the next list.
Ten Things Worth Being Thankful For
1. I realized that forgiveness is sometimes an important part of my emotional processes, but that there are some things I can’t forgive without an apology. This is an awkward combination of facts, but I’m trying to make it work, and to my almost complete shock, a piece of it did work earlier this week. Now if I want to make the rest of it work I have to actually deal with emotional processing, which frankly can bite me because I hate it. But it’s easy to see my way to being grateful for this: that I am in a position to actually do the emotional processing should I choose. Not everyone has the time or the wherewithal to do it. I’m lucky.
2. I have a family, and as far as I know my family is safe and warm right now.
3. I have friends who inexplicably care about me enough to go clothes shopping with me, which I have been reliably informed is sort of like surgery without anesthetic.
4. I went to a fantastic conference this year, the American Translators Association national conference, where I met awesome people, witnessed wonderful coincidences, and met somebody who knows one of Henning Mankell’s translators. /fangirl
5. I have health insurance. And I am usually not too sick to cope. And when I am too sick to work, I get sick leave.
6. Sometimes when I try to get to know people better, it actually works. Not always, but sometimes.
7. Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh.
8. I met someone earlier this year who sort of woke me up. I’m a small person in his life, which I’m okay with, but he did a big thing for me, because I needed to wake up.
9. I’m still doing good work.
10. I’m still a Mawrter, and that will always belong to me, and it is excellent.