Giving thanks ...

 I could have sworn it was just Halloween.  I've been neglecting this blog and it frustrates and saddens me.  I used to love writing, and it seems to have been pushed to the side in my life.  I don't think that was intentional, it just has fallen away.  Like lovers who grow apart.  Writing used to be my escape from my life.  Now that I like the life I'm living ... I have no need to escape.  A good thing, but a sign also of how much I have grown and changed.  Again, a good thing.

 A few weeks ago, I started working on making some Christmas cards.  Just a creative outlet one evening.  I'm hoping that I can manage to finish more and actually get them in the mail before Christmas [unlike the Thanksgiving cards I bought in October and then "lost" on my coffee table until I found them ... today].

 Today I had Thanksgiving with my friend Nancy's family.  Thanksgiving may mean starting with Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, but for me, it's the National Dog Show that I look forward to the most.   I ate too much, but it was delicious.  Put up a window of Christmas lights when I got home.  Started working on upcycling an old light fixture from a ceiling fan into a solar light for front yard decoration from the dogwood or crabapple tree.

 I seem to be wrapping this year up with some mindful introspection, and making some new priorities for the years to come.  Good ones.  Good things.  Because life is good, and I'm thankful.