Insights: Yet another calendar year will end tonight. Another trip around the sun amidst a flurry of ongoing seasonal transitions through nature. Through life. In years prior, our home might have been filled with music, food, drink, laughter, and more bodies than we had chairs to hold. Tonight, I'm alone in the same room, with all of the same chairs, only they're empty. Tommy will return at some point and most likely depart again, as he is prone to do. And I'm alone. Comfortably alone. I have some light keto snacks, tea instead of alcohol, and a relaxing alto sax jazz station, based on an artist I was recently introduced to, playing throughout the house. My initial intention was to revisit, recap, and rehash highlights of the past year, as you see elsewhere each year. I have many things spanning the past 365 days that were critical, pivotal, inspirational or annoyingly recursive and unchanging. Why relive that? It's all there already. I see no need to "Reader's Digest it" over. What I culled of the year so far will be scrapped in exchange for the simple observation and reinforcement of the most prominent topic in my writings. Gratitude. I repeat myself extensively in these daily posts, and gratitude surfaces as a common theme. Striving for it, experiencing it, voicing it, and reinforcing it. I also appreciate the history I've captured here, literally day by day, and the archive it holds for my friends and family of our shared experiences, as well as my own musings and insights. I feel better about where I am, both physically and mentally, now than where I was 12 months ago. There will be more opportunities for improvement provided I integrate what I learn rather than forgetting or ignoring it. Life is a learning experience. Routine lessons, tests and pop quizzes are core to the curriculum. But I'm in no hurry to take the final.
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