12/20/2025
It is easy to forget how blessed we are.
To wake up. To eat well. To move our bodies. To care for others.
Even the tired moments mean we are alive.
Gratitude is found in the ordinary, and that is what makes life beautiful.
Today, I feel immense gratitude for the home where I have grown, loved, healed, and created so many wonderful memories.
As I say goodbye to it, I am reminded that it was never just walls and roomsâit was the small moments that meant everything. Quiet mornings. Shared laughter. Tears held safely. Love moving freely through everyday life.
As Alan Watts so beautifully said:
âWe do not come into this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.â
This home was part of the tree that grew me.
And as Lao Tzu reminds us:
âA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.â
I carry this home with meânot as a place, but as a feeling.
And with gratitude, I step forward, trusting that what has been lived in love is never truly left behind.