The end of a real day off

Today, I've had my first honest day off in quite a while . While I wasn't compelled to do anything really "special", I did take the opportunity to simply relax. Listening to Classical Music and getting lost in a good book (Mornngs on Horseback by David McCullough) were how the bulk of the day was spent. There were the inevitable loads of laundry and some minor food shopping to do and a trip to St. Louis to start planning, but that was as close as I got to doing anything really "physical".

I don't give myself enough time to relax but I'm learning to be better about that. Though I have loved the way my life has been turning for a long time now, I find that I am just now becoming comfortable with it. I'm don't have to "prove" anything anymore - to anybody else or to myself. I'm still quite teachable but have come to understand the value of teaching as well. I've learned to say "Thank-you" when praised and to be generous with praise myself.

I'm pretty sure that I am fully realizing that I'm okay just the way I am. There's more to learn and more to give, but for today I'm okay with me.

Life is Good

Love and Peace from Key West

I hardly have the time to get here anymore, but have been inspired to try a little harder and to make the time - a little more often.

I just celebrated my Fifth Anniversary of Sobriety (yesterday) and these past five years have brought heretofore unimaginable changes in my life. I never really understood how very good life could be. I live, work, and even play in sobriety and have found a life that is filled with happiness and freedom. I have gratitude in my life and resentments have become a thing of the long ago past. Openness and honesty have become a way of life...and have opened doors that I never even knew exsisted.

Life is good...very good indeed.