The Best Reasons of the Season

With two wars going on globally, the battle for national health insurance raging, the state of the economy dismal and getting worse, unemployment at an all time high (my own included) and woes in the personal and professional realm, what's there to celebrate this Christmas, I ask you?

When I started this blog, it was to grieve the loss of Suzy, my beloved Sheltie.  It was to be a repository for all my sadness and wailings.  My personal dumpster, if you will.  Then, it began taking on a life of its own.  Evolving, like all of our lives, into its own form, with its own tales and truths. So it is this season, as I sit down to write my blog two days before Christmas.

Not knowing where I'll be, who I'll be with (if anyone) and what I'll be doing, uncertainty can drive a person mad. Yet, being spontaneous is a wonderful adventure.  So when I think of the Chinese "yin and yang" or polar opposites, I think of happy and sad, good and bad, glad and mad and so on.  And then I think about how that applies to all of us so much of the time.

Uncertainty is often fraught with angst & worry.  What will happen if. . . . . .?  Am I capable of doing this?  Who else will be there?  Will they like me?  Am I good enough?  And on and on.  Then, the moments of joy, when one feels safe, secure, in the right place at the right time.  Comfortable.  We all experience both feelings many times a month, week, maybe even each day.  And, life goes on.

Oprah always says, "This, I know is true. . ." then goes on to say what she feels in her bones.  No matter the ratings, her personal life, family woes or global foes, Oprah knows certain things to be true no matter what.
Things that anchor and delight her, things that bring her love and are there for her. Things that matter. And so it is with me this holiday season, for these reasons, this is what I know. . .