WeblogPoMo AMA #5
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Following in Helen’s footsteps, I’m answering (to the best of my ability) Jedda’s AMA question:
“What are you thankful for?
Well, in truth, quite a lot really. But again, like Helen, I think I’ll stick to a handful of things that I’m thankful for.
- First of all, I'm thankful for being alive. For having made it in one piece through the worst of covid to arrive here and now. Especially when the OH lost an aunt and an elder cousin to covid. I'm tankful every day that my health holds out and that I get another day on this blue and green marble floating in space. To look up at the stars and wonder, and to look at so much living beauty before it's gone for good.
- I'm truly thankful to my partner for sponsoring me over the three year period necessary for me to first obtain my landed immigrant status here, in the province. And then, the gruelling 3 year paper-chase we had to go through in order to obtain my citizenship (which I finally got in August, 2021.) You wouldn't believe the amount of paperwork involved.
- I'm also very thankful that even while covid raged around us, I actually lost weight from walking (Nervous energy? Fear? Who knows.) And not only that, because we were, like everyone else on the planet, in lockdown, I saved money. In fact, I've managed to save a small nest egg. A tiny miracle in and of itself.
- I'm truly thankful for my found family. My mother and sister in law have gone out of their way to make me feel welcome, and one of the family. And in a way my own family never did. Acceptance is the one thing we all look for amongst our family and friends, but the truth is, it isn't always a given. That support has been invaluable.
- And finally, of course, I am beyond grateful to my partner who has, for what seems like the last millennia, been there for me, by my side, through every up and down, good and bad, as we grow old together.
And you, what are you grateful for?