Happy Christmas Eve Eve!
A good time to reflect on things I am thankful for. Grateful for a quiet Christmas celebration with just me and my husband, our tiny living Christmas tree, for rainbows and odd dark clouds with sun shining against them yesterday, for having parents and a grandmother I felt safe sending the link to my new poems on Wicked Alice, knowing that they will understand and not be afraid of poems like “Ode to Fellatio,” grateful that I am finally well enough to go back to school, grateful for the book coming out next year, grateful to poets who have written the books I loved this year, grateful to friends who have listened to me whine and worry, grateful to friends who share their poems with me, grateful for my two lounging cats. Grateful to write, and that sometimes people even read what I write. Grateful for mail in the mailbox, good or bad. Grateful for South Park Christmas shows last night, and for Anne McAffery’s Dragonsong series on tape, which I’ve been listening to. Grateful for new CDs of Johnny Cash and The Shins.
“It’s been a long December and there’s reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last…” We listen to this Counting Crows song at the end of every year. Sometimes more goes wrong than we know. Sometimes things go right. Often at the same time. This has been one of those years.
This weekend we are going to sneak out and see some movies. I’m woefully behind on catching movies. What should we see first?