Inspirational Author, Speaker and Educator

This week is Thanksgiving; being thankful. I started the year with a big lesson. Slow down. Release ancestral survival mode and nourish my soul. I'm thankful for the opportunity to have had the lesson because the alternative would not have been good. The ups and downs in life are opportunities for lessons to be learned.

This week, with Thanksgiving coming up, the word that came up was cleaning. If we're going to have company and people in our home, I think we might need to clean a little bit more, organize a little bit more, put things away a little bit more. Now, it doesn't mean to shove it in a closet. It just means let's go tidy up a little bit.

This week the word that has been rolling around in my mind is anticipation. We are at that time of year where we are anticipating everything – the holidays, the gatherings, the events, the meals, the traditions – the list is long. But here's my question since we always live with anticipation of something, are we living the moments in between?