I Feel Good

I feel good: When a favorite holiday comes around, when I hear a brilliant piece of music, when I have the leisure to simply sit outside & listen to the wind & the birds in the trees. I feel guiltily good when I realize that the big storm went somewhere else this year, more than once this year, in fact. I feel obstreperously good when my candidate wins handily & the other guy never even sees it coming. I feel cautiously good when I get to this ripe old age & I'm still capable of handling my own sh!t, earning a living included. I feel luxuriously good when I can curl up with a book & feed myself chocolates on a weekend. I feel capably good when I can pay my bills & not be captive to a mindset that says I always have to make more money than I actually need to deal with the basics. I feel humbly good when I realize none of this *had* to happen, that everything in life is a matter of grace or luck.

It's Thanksgiving 2012 & I feel good. I hope you feel good, too.