Happy Thanksgiving Day 2009
Another year coming to a close. So far, I say this has been the best year since my egress from Raleigh. Lots to give thanks for, not all of which I’ll write here. The most important things, to be sure.
After 19 years without any contact at all, I was reunited with my daughter this year, at least via online. Her mother found me in cyberspace, and took a fair share of convincing me that it was indeed her, and that she could put me in touch with our daughter. I admit I was surprised, but then I wasn’t, when considering what I had experienced not a full week before. More on that later. We three have been texting and messaging each other since then, slowly but surely redeveloping a friendly relationship. Our daughter will be visiting Alabama near Christmas holiday, and Susan has secured my assurance to be at her house when Sandra arrives. Looking forward to that day, and giving thanks for it now.
I could have very easily went to jail this year. I didn’t. I think that highly qualifies as something to be thankful for! Again, Susan came to my rescue, despite our past differences. Thank you Susan, for taking care of our daughter without my help. Thank you for seeing that when I do finally get to see Sandra in person again, it’s not done from a prison cell. I’m not the person you once knew, and this time I will most certainly do as you requested of me. Thank you for helping me realize this opportunity.
A mere six days before the news of Sandra, I attended a More To Life weekend. I do not believe it be coincidence that Sandra came back into my life shortly afterward. During the More To Life weekend, I successfully recognized and processed through a couple of major mental obstructions. One of those was to allow myself to be open to Love, not just from those whom I select, but from those who also select me. And what an amazing sensation it is! It is for this very fact that I believe I was reconnected with Sandra, once I was open to receiving Love as it is, from anywhere and everywhere. Now I have the full opportunity to give Love in the same manner and fashion, for which I am gratefully thankful.
I give a tremendous amount of thanks for my local friends. They are doing more than I ask for towards helping me have the basic necessities. They also put up with my constant attempts at wanting them to question their own motives and actions, and perhaps better their own lives. They were there before, during, and after my hernia operation, in more ways than I remember. They endure my incredibly dry sense of humor, and seem to enjoy having me over to watch all the good and bad sci-fi we can get our hands on. I give thanks for letting me borrow Spritzer the cat, who provides me with much laughter and attention, who listens to my atrocious singing to her and still wants to curl up on my lap. Thank you for all the Sonic runs, for driving me all over town, for teaching me new things. Part of the way I can show my thanks to you is to do and be what I am for you, and you can count on me doing and being exactly that. I love you all.
I give thanks for the ability and the choice to write. This year I have been planning some very specific goals that are being worked into my Jim 4.0 operation, to celebrate my upcoming 40th birthday. I’m thankful that, even though I don’t make much of an income from writing, I am still able to make an income, and that it is all based on my choices. This momentum and strength has slowly been increasing over the years, and I anticipate any new and exciting adventures it will help make present in the next and future years.
So many more things I’m thankful for, but I would probably be writing until the end of the year. Rather go and watch another thankful pastime – football. Later I have a Cusano 59 Rare Cameroon cigar to smoke in celebration of today, and to remember my fellow soldiers deployed in peace and war all over the world. Stay alert, stay alive!
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