Before anything else, I am glad to be alive. Yes, it is a difficult time for humanity with all sorts of fractious divides and fragile egos running amok and hurting our planet. Still, I’d rather be here than not.
Next, I am equally glad to report good health and reasonable vitality to enjoy the life I have. In 2019, I underwent many physical repairs including: eye surgery, knee replacement, and bariatric stomach revision. All to reset my body for better function for the time I have remaining. The fact that I had basic insurance and wonderful health care providers made the experience more than bearable. It is a blessing I do not take for granted.
I’ve really appreciated my relationship with Sarah and her support during these several recoveries. While I don’t believe myself to be a demanding patient :-), I have felt very attended to and cared for.
This year, I got to be a grandfather by association. Sarah became a Grandma, when her son Justin and fiancee Kelsey, had little Wyatt. I became his ‘Opa.’ He has been a shot in my arm for joy, hope, and promise for the future. I didn’t think I’d get a chance this lifetime, so I’m feeling particularly blessed; and lucky!
To all of you, my clients and readers, let me thank you for your continued support and faith. The feedback I receive is heartwarming. Somehow, my services still seem to bring in enough income for me to do my work. And, if someone does not return, I can only hope that the service Michael’s Consortium and I rendered was sufficient that they got what, or to who, they needed.
Six years after the first printing of the Michael Motivation Cards™, I published, an Ebook, “Motivations: A Feedback System – A Complimentary Guide to the Michael Motivation Cards™.” It took me many years to get this compiled, so I am grateful, to those who assisted me. The 575 pages offer a much more in-depth overview of the Card Deck, how to utilize it. Each Card has a more comprehensive overview of the concept with a greater variety of responses. Thank you for those who purchased it. May those of you who value the Cards find deeper understanding and support from the book. A 2nd Edition is already in the works for in 2020 with it being available in print.
In spite of all the devastating changes in climate, our regional weather was wet, restorative, and rendered my mountain home lush. After several years of drought which killed almost 100 trees on our property, 2019 afforded time and opportunity to get the deadwood out and return the rest of our little forest to a verdant state. Great relief accompanies my luxurious feeling of living in nature and with beauty.
I managed to release more of the old or unused items that were just things I stored. Getting unworn clothing out to the Gathering Inn in Sacramento and furniture items to Helping Hands, our local community thrift store; made my heart, closet, and storage all lighter. Material objects now have less a hold on my ego identity than they once did. Freedom accrues to me every time I let something go that no longer serves a current function. I am an proud and avowed minimalist!
My sister Sue, my only remaining family who has end-stage renal disease, is stable, happy and really appreciating the time she has. She recognizes each day as a gift. I find myself in gladness for her to have reached this state.
I am really tickled that a gruffled old fool like myself can still have such potent curiosity. Even at 62, I love to learn! I can be stung when discovering that a notion I believed was actually false. Ye, I no longer feel ashamed about mistakes, nor do I cling too hard to cherished identities or doctrines which wisdom has told me to confront. And somehow, in all this, exuberance arises in me realizing that I now have more accurate knowledge and/or deeper understanding of a process, history, or foundations upon which to evaluate and make decisions. Now that realization makes me feel excitement as if I were young again!
Finally, when I am not jaded, I am truly thankful for Love. Only when I remember to default to love first, do I have the impetus for compassion. Not just for others but for myself as well.
May all of you experience more love in your lives. Then, turn around and share it!
And since I am learning Spanish this year, let me sign off with:
Feliz Navidad y Feliz ano Nuevo. Here we come 2020!
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