Grateful
This past year has been full of lovely things:
- turning 30 and celebrating it properly.
- traveling to France again as well as Massachusetts, Vermont, Ohio, and Hawaii.
- moving with my sweetheart to a new and much improved apartment.
- kickstarting my next series with the help of lots of wonderful people.
- being awarded a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant for that same series.
- and finding amazing collaborators for it too.
And, unlike last year when every shiny moment was tainted by illness, 2011 has been full of relatively good health news. I may still be in as much pain as I was in 2010, but, unlike many of the treatment options for endometriosis, my new therapy does not hijack my hormones and turn me into a black hole of happiness. What’s more, as of my last ultrasound, the treatment is actually helping my body to stop the growth of the disease. Altogether, the Mirena Coil has been an excellent choice for me.
As I look back on this year, I am grateful for the all the good things in my life, but, more than anything else, I’m grateful for rediscovering gratitude. That’s something I’d lost in 2010. When it looked like my life would consist of chronic physical pain and chemically-induced emotional misery, I lost a sense of what I had to be thankful for. And, having had that experience, I can say with some certainty that living without gratitude isn’t living much at all.
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