I heard a lot of people this year speak badly about turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanksgiving turkey is traditional, as well as a number of other dishes. The familiar and the comforting sensations as we gather aroudn the table and observe the holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was this the same as last year? I\u2019m not sure they all blur together. What was different this year? The point was to be the same, wasn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It must have been the same. It must have been different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s too close to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am taking a minute to look at what has been happening this last year, and what I would like to be happening. I do that a lot. With things were different, rail against how my life is not how I wish it might be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s too close to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went to a public place with other smells, sounds and voices and wrote down what I wished were happening. What am I hoping for? Is it really missing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I reach for categories\u2014What am I doing that is creative? What am I doing that uses my voice? What am I doing that make me grow? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upon examination, I am surprised to see more than I realized. I am not so hopeless as I feared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gretchen Rubin wrote a book titled The Happiness Project.<\/em> She was exploring what it meant to be happy and how to be more of it. I remember her writing that if she weren\u2019t able to recognize that she was actually happy, she wouldn\u2019t get the full benefit of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Holly Golightly in Breakfast at TIffany\u2019s<\/em> didn\u2019t know her cat belongeduntil he was gone. And Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz <\/em>took her whole epic adventure to realize she had the secret to getting home all along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Happiness could be so worn out I don\u2019t see it anymore. I am tired of these comfortable shoes, but it turns out all the others are just wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I put a coat of polish on the shoes and maybe I can feel newly satisfied. Or at least know that I am not and begin to look for something better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I heard a lot of people this year speak badly about turkey. Thanksgiving turkey is traditional, as well as a number of other dishes. The familiar and the comforting sensations as we gather aroudn the table and observe the holiday. … Continue reading