Ending 2023 with gratitude
Flowers I saw when I went hiking on Earth Day this year After a few rough years, I am ending the year of 2023 with surprise. I am surprised because it turned out to be a good year. I am also grateful. In addition to some good things happening on a writing level, which I wrote about in this blog post , some good things happened on a personal level. The first thing is the big thing: I made it to another year sober. Yay! The second thing is another big thing. I have talked before about how my oldest, Centauri, lost his scholarship to the University of Oregon. I was grasping at straws and trying to find ways to get the money together so that he could stay in school and finish until graduation. Well, something happened this year that made it possible for him to go back to school, after missing out on one year. I don’t know WHAT happened and he hasn’t told me yet, but somehow, he is able to afford the cost of returning to school and taking ...