okay fine.

While I've genuinely appreciated all my friends' Thankful-Blogging, as is of course apropos this time of year (my appreciation/their sentiments), I was NOT going to follow suit-- I actually was planning to Complain-blog instead, about the fact that my Rapid Aging Disease seems to have come back with a vengeance.

And I'm still going to.

BUT-- probably not today. Because today, my beloved friend and fellow Rising Star volunteer Kristin Goodell sent me a bunch of photos from our time in India, and they sent me over the edge.

And so I just have to share a few of them, in gratitude.

Because-- not only am I sooo grateful that she sent these photos-- they brought back feelings and memories that have become buried in the day-to-day, and awakened memories I'd forgotten I had, as some are images I haven't seen before-- but they're also a pretty good indicator of just a few of the most important things, of a gazillion things, that I AM thankful for.

(these photos are all of me, which is weird to post I know, but that's what Kristin sent, sorry!)

love and trust and family

 

shelter and home

(we could barely fit into the one room that was the entire house of this dear woman)

 

adventure and memories, and great friends

 

good health (Rapid Aging Disease notwithstanding, of course)

 

the beauty of this glorious earth

and

 

Sheer Joy.

I'm generally happy, but India... in India, I was REEEALLY happy. You can't not be!

Oh, and I'm also really glad that none of these feisty monkeys followed through on their attack plans. Probably my very awkward reactionary posing weirded them out.

 

 

(And I'm super-grateful that I get to go back to India, for Christmas! Hurry Christmas hurry fast!) (I would happily age faster if it brings me one step closer to India)

and THANK YOU, Kristin!!