My Single Mom Life

I have so much to be thankful for this year, I can't list them all. There are some big ones like finally meeting a surgeon with the skills and some small ones like finally seeing the truth and allowing it to be free.

I made friends and lost friends but I'm still grateful for their time in my life because every person or situation that has passed through me, was a learning experience. Another way for me to grow and see with clear eyes how things are.

I learned that I am still me no matter how much people tried to change me, that I am better this way, rather than the way they wanted me to be.

I have been through a lot this year and I still came out better in the end. I know who I am, no bullshit, not phony, just me, like me or not.

I hope you all have things to be thankful for, that you all grew in some way this year, that your learning never stops, that your eyes will always be open to new things, new people, new ideas, but still find the ability to be yourself.

Jung says the greatest sin is to be unconscious.
Our boy Holden says "What scares me most is the other guy's face -- it wouldn't be so bad if you could both be blindfolded -- most of the time the faces we face are not the other guys' but our own faces. And it's the worst kind of yellowness to be so scared of yourself you put blindfolds on rather than deal with yourself..." To face ourselves.
That's the hard thing.