Christmas Eve

 Thank you for reading along.

Thank you for all you bring to the world: for everything you do for your family, your friends, and your loved ones.

Thank you for believing - for believing in something more. Something more than this life of triumph and struggle and here and now.  Thank you for believing in the eternal - in whatever shape or form that takes.

Thank you for trying - for every day trying to do the best you can - be the best person, partner, sibling, child, parent, worker, community member, neighbor -- all of the hats you wear so gracefully - thank you.

Thank you for slowing.  For stopping -- even for this moment -- to read.  For the other days when you read.  For the times you stopped to read a week's worth of entries.

Thank you for the gifts you bring to the world. For loving.  For hoping.  For being grateful. For feeling joy.

Thank you for your humanity.  For making the effort to live and live well. To model that for the world around you.

Thanks for coming along with me on this journey, for helping me realize a dream.

From the bottom of my heart:

Merry Christmas.