"Ooooh, I wanna thank you." - Antony and the Johnsons, Thank You For Your Love
December 14 – Appreciate
What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?
(Author: Victoria Klein)
This is a bit ironic since Wii Fit has been telling me regularly that I have very little of it (except when I'm standing still) but the answer is: balance. I know change is a constant but this last year has felt especially prone to blindside right hooks and unexpected turns. I'm not prone to feeling frazzled but I was shook a bit more often than I'm used to over these 12 months.
So, I've appreciated those days were things felt, if not in sync, at least in balance. And I've appreciated when I've been deliberate in getting back to center. Sometimes that meant ritualizing my mornings so I could quiet my mind but sometimes that's also meant finding great reasons to leave the house, hear some live music, shake my moneymaker, and balancing working hard with playing hard.
I appreciate the balance The Lady brings to my life. As we get closer by the day to officially co-habitating, I have been reflecting on what life was like the week she spent in LA Thanksgiving week. Sharing meals together, going on walks together, decompressing by being able to talk through my day with her...I felt the power of partnership.
And balance.
I don't know that I take a lot of time to express appreciation besides trying to share. Whether it's with the words I write here or actually sharing these experiences in real time with my loved ones, I hope whomever or whatever cares about such things besides me knows that I don't take this life for granted especially the moments in which I've got both the yin and the yangs. Those moments when I am without want. Those moments when my soul is at peace.
Thanks.