Thanks.

It’s been a bit since I’ve been on and I apologize to anyone who might have been wondering where the heck I went.  I think in my last post I mentioned how I was working hard to keep up to the exciting orders that were wonderfully coming in.  It was great trying to keep up, and I’m not sure I did an entirely perfect job at it since my posting suffered a bit.

But, alas, I am back after having learned a truly valuable lesson - the importance of communication.  I learned that no matter how busy this life gets, it’s important to stop, take a moment from the hussle and check in with your friends and family – which thankfully now includes you. 

So what’s going on?  Well, this was an amazingly meaningful holiday (Thanksgiving) to have experienced.  Funny how in the past I was always so caught up in the excitement over the food and how stuffed I would make myself by night’s end that I somehow may have missed a point.  This year was a bit different. 

I decided to live up to the name of the day and stuff myself rather with appreciation… for everything… and everyone I’ve had the privilege to know and get to know in my life.  And of course, that still includes you!

Thank you, thank you, and thank you.

I’d like to be clear here that I’m not referring directly, though I feel great gratitude for it as well, to your purchasing our products.  That is wonderful and a very kind gesture and I really enjoy knowing that there is interest in this aspect of our lives. 

But I’m talking about something a little deeper (which I believe is where I will be dipping from now on in these posts – another little something I’d learned from this epiphany).  I guess I’m referring to a new connection I feel with you all - which I’m thankful for.  Superficially, you know about me, just a little bit from my brief cameo in Season 1, my relation with John and maybe a bit more from what I’ve written in some posts, here.  But how can you really know someone with such limited information.  In reality, we don’t… or do we?

Sometimes, even without knowing, we do… intuitively.  

We’re all a lot more alike than we think.  We are, after all, people.  We’re much more similar than different.  We all have struggles and we all have loves.  Sometimes I wonder if the struggling is really about that ever search for that love.  I’m not only referring to romantic love, which is the most obvious form, but the more pervasive, subtle love and acceptance we all crave to feel – for others and even for ourselves. 

Now, for entertainment purposes, some of John’s and my challenges are televised.  Interesting situation to be in.  And it’s a good thing.  I am so thankful for the opportunity to reach out to you in this special way.  It’s all about feeling connected.  Sometimes we don’t.  Sometimes we do.  Now I feel it.  The show may have been one of the tools for that, but I feel this desire to reach out has been growing in me even prior.  And for that I am ever thankful. 

So, thank you for reading and making an effort to connect to me.  Through the holidays, try and connect a little bit further with friends and family.  You may already know this, as I discovered on Thursday, that you’ll start appreciating the day, each other, and yourself all the more for it.   

I’ll explore this more in future posts, but more importantly, I’ll stay in contact more often… because it makes me happy.  I hope it does the same for you.  Thanks again.