Greetings!!! Welcome to the obligatory thankful “Thanksgiving Post”.
Since I am fashionably late to posting my monthly reading update (based on my self-imposed schedule); I present to you, on this beautifully chilly November day, a lovely amalgamation of my October reading summary AND my yearly thankfulness post.
The older I get, the more often I find myself brought to TEARS by the world around me. In my “I-know-everything-I’ve-seen-it-all” stage, I found myself modeling the behavior consistent with someone who cares farrr too much what the people around her think. As an adult, who is still learning, evolving and very much relatively young and still in the beginning stages of life, I find that I’m far more open to always being my truly authentic self. This revolutionary act of authenticity leaves me stripped bare and available to making decisions and doing things based solely on my inclination towards doing/not doing that thing.
A few days ago, I watched the movie adaptation of one of my absolute favorite Broadway musicals, “Wicked”. This is probably an appropriate time to tell you that I am an ABSOLUTE theatre nerd. I grew up attending acting camps, juggling weekly violin lessons and meeting with vocal performance coaches…I AM A MUSICAL GEEK. I watched Wicked with tears streaming down my face for almost the entire 2.5-hour duration of the movie. I WAS IN HEAVEN! I wanted to sing, I wanted to dance, I wanted to clap my hands and stomp my feet…I was buzzing with excitement.
So today I am thankful for art, in all its forms. I’m thankful for art and all the times art saved me. Music kept me when I was too afraid of silence. Poetry sustained me when I needed to be reminded of my own beauty and grace. The word of God guides me as I continue to discover who I am and who God has created me to be.
Today, I’m grateful in ways I’ll never find the words to express and my 20-something years on this earth have taught me to openly share this gratitude with the world and for that I am doubly grateful. Today, I feel grounded, secure, unmoved, moored–I’m not sure how long this feeling will last with the busiest days of the year ahead of me, but I know enough to know that tomorrow will take care of itself; I’m just grateful for right now, this moment, today.
In the month of October I read 5 books:
- A Court of Winds and Ruin by Sarah J Maas (reread) 5 stars
- The Art of Catching Feelings by Alicia Thompson 3 stars
- The Night House by Jo Nesbo 4.5 stars
- A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas (reread) 4.5 stars
- A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas (reread) *forgot to rate
I bought a total of 0 books in October, I read 3 books I already own and borrowed 2 from the library.
Have a fantastic Thanksgiving and an amazing life, you deserve it!
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