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Not a terribly productive day, so it had overtones of failure, but pretty good on the whole. Some very good spots: hearing that JRP wanted to keep the YD on for another year of modeling, etc. classes. A happy phone call delivering that news to Callie, while walking around the top of the nearby hill. (Not really much of a walk in terms of exercise, but it was sunny and pleasant.) Some conversation in the evening, though not as much as I would have liked. A little noodling on the guitar.

I finished reading The Highly Sensitive Person -- I'm still not sure how much of it is applicable, though certainly a lot of it is. Maybe I've just been very effective at suppressing a lot of what sensitivity I have, and never developed the skills to use it. It's certainly put things in a different light; there will be a River post once I've digested it more fully.

Too many projects I need to get back to.

Plenty of links up there under the cut.

... and it's too late to post a Wishful Wednesday, but not too late to wish you all a happy holiday season, whatever it is you celebrate.

Thankful Thursday

Hmm. Today I'm thankful for:

• Colleen, of course.
• My two daughters and their Significant Others.
• Family of choice.
• Occasional reminders that I'm not as theird as I usually wink I am -- no matter how disturbing that may be to my self-image.
• Books like The Highly Sensitive Person that turn my self-image upside-down and give it a good shake.
• Occasional reminders that my image of my kids also needs substantial revising from time to time.
• Work, and flexible enough hours that I don't have to take next week off if I don't want to.
• Holidays.