Nothing lasts forever.
Wow. A lot has happened since the last newsletter. The election. The vaccines. The Undoing. It’s officially been a year since I went home to Michigan. A whole year since I’ve hugged my parents – even longer since I’ve seen so many friends in faraway places. In some ways it feels like a lifetime and not just 365 days.
My brain’s a little fuzzy today – too much champagne and too many carbs. Otherwise known as a Thanksgiving success story. It was just the three of us this year and we cooked the entire meal ourselves, shaking up tradition with Ina Garten’s Tuscan Turkey Roulade and my son’s made-from-scratch mac and cheese. Minus my rookie mistake on the roulade everything turned out amazing. Who knew we could cook like that?
Over Zoom with my family yesterday, my niece shared the essay she’s been working on for her middle school applications. The topic was to write about a life lesson from this last year and how it impacted her. If that writing assignment was given to me, I’d have no clue where to start. How do you pick just one life lesson from this batshit-crazy year?
The words she used were resiliency, flexibility, creativity and perseverance. She wrote about how she didn’t want to give up her passions like performing and piano just because it was hard to do virtually. She shared that it’s been weird and scary and confusing. She reminded me that this won’t last forever.
I hope you found time to laugh yesterday, to connect with the people you love, to watch a movie or take a nap or read a book, to overeat and underexercise. Because nothing lasts forever. Even the good stuff.
NOW ONTO THIS MONTH’S FEEL-GOOD FINDS
