I apologize for not getting a blog out last week……the days got away from me!
I have written about gratitude the last two blogs i think….the spirit of thanksgiving has been present all month and hopefully it will be present all year!
As the holiday season revs up, I encourage you to take some time to reflect on what the holidays truly mean to you. Not just what your traditions are and what you normally do but what do they TRULY mean to YOU. We can get swept along with what we do year in and year out just because it is what we have done in the past. But things change, we change, there are different chapters in our lives.
What could you do to bring in even more connection and love into your holidays? In a way that feels authentic and in alignment with your values? Simpler is so often better. If the holidays just represent more work and more stress, simplify. You don’t have to do what you did the last 10 years just because you did it for the last 10 years!
I am going to follow my own advice and keep this simple. I will be spending Thanksgiving with a part of my family and am greatly looking forward to it! There will be plenty of laughter and walks and yoga and probably a trip to the theatre to see the latest Harry Potter movie! Oh, yes, did I mention the pumpkin pie??
Blessed thanksgiving to each of you. May our hearts open a little wider to love and to peace…….our world would be grateful. Much love, Melanie
P.S. gratitude to Chris for the photo of the polar bear that she saw on her adventure this fall!
Your post, Melanie, is perfect medicine for me this morning. I awoke this morning (as I have every morning since last Friday) with intense mid-back discomfort. I thought surely after a acupressure/chiropractic adjustment yesterday that I would awake “cured”. I felt a sense of panic knowing my house would be full all weekend with family and how would I cope? Your post has helped me to instead see this as an opportunity to sit and laugh more, to allow my adult children to participate in preparing a Thanksgiving meal, to enjoy what is truly important – sharing space with those I love most intensely. The house is clean enough as is, etc, etc. I believe the universe, through allowing my pain to continue, has offered me an opportunity to slow down and just be.
Namaste, Debb
I am always so happy when my words are a gift for someone! I just returned from thanksgiving with “half” of my children and i was so well loved and tended to:) How wonderful to have adult children! much love debb! melanie
Hi Melanie!
I noticed you like pumpkin pie well when
we do finally manage to get together I will make you
some of my famed pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin pie, Pumpkin pie
if I don’t get some
I think I’m going to die
Give away my furry hat
Give away the sky
but don’t give away
my pumpkin pie!
adapted from Shell Silverstein’s poem
Much Gratitude to you for being such
a wonderful friend.
Love Catherine
thanks dear friend! i had WONDERFUL pumpkin pie on thursday:) i will look forward to your famous pie! talk soon. m