A Bit to Read

It’s really Friday now, and it’s another gray one, though I think it’s raining or it will rain or it rained. Definitely one of those.

Probably.

Yesterday I made a bit of a mess, but that’s the thing about life and writing, you can learn from it and use it going forward for both. The week has that floaty holiday feeling, and my blog is my personal writing living room.

It’s not always tidy or company ready, I guess.

Which is why we are all so comfy here. No perfection required.

There are so many things we try so hard at, and in the end, no one minds if we don’t get them exactly the way they looked in our heads. Let me see if I can find a relevant example picked completely out of the air.

Wink.

Holidays are one of those things we see smoothed over and doused in glitter that doesn’t embed itself into the carpet and skin like a sentient, shiny alien life. In media, the hitches are hilarious and heartwarming and ultimately bonuses; in real life, they may not go that way.

In real life, who is at the table can change, through geography, through relationship shifts, through the kinds of things that cannot be reversed but are always felt.

But like water, a holiday can morph to fit the container it’s in.

If we let go of the expectations, even the ones in retrospect, where we Monday quarterback each gift, each dish, each detail, maybe we can see the time for what it is: a space to do something enjoyable. A space, perhaps, to eat something enjoyable.

A space to spend time with people you find enjoyable, whatever form that takes, even if they’re entirely coded into a game.

The messiness is inevitable, there are times we will get things wrong. There are times we may stride ahead in wrongness with confidence.

But that doesn’t have to be a disaster relived, over and over, behind glass where it cannot be fiddled with.

You never know what you may get out of it.

In my case, it’s another post.

Have a great Friday, Happy EVERYTHING, and now have a wonderful weekend. Allow yourself your mistakes, you may be the only one who minds.

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Aunty Ida’s Full-Service Mental Institution (by Invitation Only)   
Aunty Ida’s Holey Amazing Sleeping Preparation (Not Doctor Recommended) 
Her Cousin Much Removed
The Great Paradox and the Innies and Outies of Time Management.
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