Reflections on 2011

I have a tradition of really thinking of thankfulness and blessings every year, and since I've started this blog I've posted that list. Some items are the same, some have changed. After all, one year is a long time in which we can grow and change. So to continue with my tradition...

Happy New Year y'all.
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I am grateful for working on my own terms.

I am grateful for having the power to choose the path of my career.

I am grateful for past coworkers and will never forget the value they add to my life.

I am grateful for my successes and failures.

I am grateful for being financially stable.

I am grateful for our warm and comforting home and having plenty of people to fill it.

I am grateful for a full fridge and stocked larder.

I am grateful for the his and hers cars in our driveway.


I am grateful for my faith.

I am grateful for my good health and reliable medical care.

I am grateful for my strength.

I am grateful for my freedom.

I am grateful for the ability to exercise my rights.

I am grateful for my education, affording me my analytical and rational mind.

I am grateful for all the challenges I have had in my life.

I am grateful for having such wonderful, supportive, and loving parents.

I am grateful for having a sister who keeps me on the straight and narrow, or at least tries to.

I am grateful for those partners found by and who complete my loved ones.

I am grateful for having the chance to know my grandparents and listen to all their wisdom and learn something of my ancestry.

I am grateful for growing up Guyanese.

I am grateful for my large, rambunctious, quick-witted and humourous family.

I am grateful for cousins who are more like brothers and sisters.


I am grateful for my mother who has gone above and beyond helping me this year.

I am grateful for friendship.

I am grateful for fellow bloggers who test my boundaries.

I am grateful for the extra special blog-friends who will continue to be friends regardless of the blog.

I am grateful for having my boys who don't treat me like a girl.

I am grateful for having my girls who never judge me.

I am grateful for the circle of friends who are more like family.

I am grateful for love.

 I am grateful for the greatest blessing in my future or my past; my daughter.

I am grateful for my marriage.

I am grateful for a husband who is the best partner he can be.

I am grateful for my stepdaughter and goddaughter and the honest affection in their eyes.

I am grateful for experiencing joy and love beyond words to the point where it draws tears from your eyes.

I am grateful for having someone love me so completely they are willing to let me go.

I am grateful for orgasms.

I am grateful for my love of writing, which leads me to my pride in my novels and my poetry.

I am grateful for my imagination.

I am grateful for orgasms.

I am grateful for knowing when to stop.

I am grateful for life.


Blessings:

I ask God to bless those I love.

My Daughter

My Parents

My Sister

My Husband

My Step-Daughter

My Goddaughter

Her Godfather

My Sister's New Boyfriend

My Brother in Law

My Sister in Law

My Husband's Parents

My Grandmother

His Grandfather

Our Late Grandparents

My dear Cousins (including the Crew)

His Cousins

My Aunts and Uncles

His Aunts and Uncles

My Friends (both in real life and here, in this wonderful world of blogging)

My Co-Workers (and his)

My Pundit

All who are in poor health, may you recover
All who have recently lost a loved one, may your sorrow be managed through the love of family
All who are in dire straits, may your burdens be lightened by future successes
All who have suffered, may you pains be removed
All who need assistance, may you receive help
All who are closeminded, may your eyes be opened
All who are in dispair, may you have the devine ispiration of hope