November brings us to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving brings us to family, food and preparation for celebrating the holiday season.
This is the time of year that we are inside more and our energies are directed towards more family and social interactions.
It's a time for curling up in front of a fire and sipping on a cup of hot chocolate and reading a book, writing a letter or
journaling.
The fall leaves are beautiful and the morning air is crisp and fresh. It's a time to harvest the garden
and prepare our yards, our homes and ourselves for winter.
Sometimes in the fall and winter it can be hard for
people to be in uplifting spirits because of the darker and shorter days where there is not much sunlight. We might need to
take some extra steps to help ourselves keep a positive outlook during this time.
I'm planning (we'll see if it
actually happens) to have a project for myself this winter. I'm wanting to put all my photo's into photo albums or in frames
to hang on the walls. All those boxes of pictures and no real order to any of it...this should be a good project to get me
through the winter.
During the holidays we often will have mixed feeling about being with our families because
of all our different personalities and because of expectations - theirs and our own. Through some recent healing work I've
been doing I've taken an interest in my family history and I think it ties in perfectly with my winter project. I realized
that I don't have pictures of my grandparents in my home so not only will I get to put those boxes of pictures into a organized
set-up but I will also get to spend more time understanding my family history.
I've been thinking about what my
parents childhoods might have been like. Did things happen in their childhood that caused them to raise me the way they did?
Many people as they grow up and start families of their own are heard to say, "I'll never raise my children the way I
was raised!", because something in their childhood makes them want something different for their own children. Well,
if I raised my children the opposite of how I was raised, then it stands to reason that my parents raised me the opposite
of how they were raised, and that is most likely the opposite of how my grandparents were raised.
So...did I raise
my daughters the way my mother was raised? And did she raise me and my brother the way my grandparents were raised? This idea
gave me a totally new outlook on things. This possibility could radically change the way I view my family dynamics. This could
give me a new understanding of why my grandparents and parents live the life they did/do....and in turn, why I live the way
I do. All this new perspective is mind blowing to me.
I'm sure a lot of you out there had these discoveries years
ago but to me this is a brand new concept! So I'm going to have fun with this winter project and learn what I can about my
family before me and give more thought to what might have happened to other people that has created them the way they are.
I'm looking at this as a great adventure!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!
Donations of any amount are always greatly appreciated. A few months ago I asked for donations to help HedraNews.
I am happy to say that we have received 3 donations. I'd like to extend a Very Special Thank YOU to Richard C., Karon N.,
& Laura F. Your generosity has helped towards getting our bills caught up a bit...thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Many Blessings to You & Yours
