Thankfulness

That is something I’ve been embracing more and more since I’ve blogged last. In the past couple of months the work has been coming in pretty darn persistently lately. Here’s a bullet point update for me.

- Had more poems published in SPOTLIGHT ON RECOVERY

- Made contacts with an editor for SCHOLASTIC books and two published children’s writers at the 2009 SCBWI (Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators) conference in June.

- Learned the Director role at INDIANA JONES at Walt Disney World (WDW)

- Now hosting sports ceremonies at ESPN’s WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS at WDW.

- Continue working at AMERICAN IDOL at WDW as a Judge.

- Entertain the masses at SLEUTHS as a wacky security guard named Remington Card.

Now the jobs I’ve worked have not only saved my butt financially but they’re fun to boot. Instead of thinking about when a big payday’s coming instead I now think “be thankful you’re working at all.” Just this little change in thought has made all the difference in appreciating all that I have (loving friends, a car that runs, a roof over my head, hot meals) etc. The more thankful I am the more I notice great things happening for me. The fact I haven’t had a survival job to pay the bills makes me happier than you’ll ever know. While I miss some of the people at the old survival job at Polo Ralph Lauren I don’t miss waking up at 5:30am and moving boxes out of trucks. I don’t miss folding hundreds of items and being reprimanded when I process the clothes slower than they would have liked, and I especially don’t miss throwing out boxes into a dumpster in 95 degree weather and sometimes having to stand INSIDE the dumpster as co-workers hoisted boxes to me so I could put them inside that metal box of depravity.
Also unfortunately there’s been a recent spate of deaths concerning people I’ve either worked with or knew through their spouses. During the memorial services and benefits held in their honor I saw such love, compassion and respect that it really made me think about how delicate the whole shebang called life is. So all in all as I continue to read, mediate, write, work and spend time with friends the overriding feeling I have is one of being thankful, of being alive, of being in the moment, of just being.