End of Year Thoughts 2024

As the year winds down to a close, I look back on 2024 with a mixture of sadness, anger, and yes, #gratitude. The year, in both global and personal terms, has been challenging and heartbreaking.

But, at the same time, the year has been eye-opening and uplifting. I'm grateful for the new person I found within these past 12 months--me. This year probably represents my biggest change in who I am because I discovered reserves of strength I didn't know I had, vulnerability I respect more than ever, and a depth of acceptance that I know to be grateful for.

I'm grateful to know better than ever what's truly important in life. This has allowed me to shed behaviors and feelings that weighed me down like chains. I'm free.

Despite this being the worst year, it's also been the best because it's truly opened my eyes to the vast treasures I have for which to be #grateful. I have a loving union with a kind-hearted and generous man who brings me real joy each and every day, even when he's at his lowest physically. Bruce's health issues have shown me an army of support with friends and family reaching out with love and concern (and I've also been surprised by the kindness of near-strangers, who have offered their compassion and love with no strings to someone they barely know). I have enough food, enough shelter, enough time to play, enough time to work, my own good health, while not perfect, is enough to keep me going and hiking a few miles up mountainsides and biking miles on open roads. I have a renewed love and connection to the spirit that exists within each and every of us and unites us all.

I know that whatever outcome awaits in the new year, it's right, whole, and perfect.

I love you all. I have enough.