there is much to be grateful for.

It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted here. I keep asking myself if there's something I want to write about vis-a-vis diabetes and the answer keeps coming up no. Not no emphatically or full of emotion. Just a quiet no, like there's nothing much to say about it right now. Which a good thing quite frankly, because it represents a new level of acceptance and equilibrium around the subject of this disease in my life. Diabetes still rocks and rolls, it still messes with my plans and my day but for some reason that fact doesn't seem to upset me quite so much lately. And I think that is, in great part, because of being able to write this blog to a caring audience and in return, receive such kindness and support from so many people out there. This blog started out as a voice in the dark and what I've found over the past few years is a place of great warmth and lightness and comfort. Which I carry with me everyday, which means I'm less frantic about it all for longer periods of time. It's not to say that I want to stop writing this blog or that I won't need to use it to rant or grieve again, but for now, for this period I feel a new level of peace I've never experienced before. Peace, acceptance and though I'm still sad about all diabetes means and brings to my life, it seems to weigh a little less heavily on my soul these days. Which is, quite simply, a great relief.  

And for that, this quiet, lighter period, I am forever grateful to everyone who has read this blog and commented and sent strength and validation and kind wishes when I've needed them the most. Oh yes, there is much to be grateful for!

Comments

[Windy]

Thank you for your posts. I really enjoy reading your blogs. This will be my 20th year with T1 diabetes... no book writing for me though, haha. Keep em coming. You're great!

[AmyT of www.diabetesmine.com]

Hi Birdie,

Thank you for checking in. It's just nice to know you're around, and thinking about life the way only you can do.

Glad to hear there's nothing to report on the D: no news is good news, ay?

All the best,
AmyT

[Scott K. Johnson]

I too go through periods where there is either too much other "stuff" keeping me busy, or I simply don't feel like writing. I think it is bad form to force the issue much - that is not what it's all about is it? But rather to write when we feel like writing!

Take care, have fun, and write when you feel like it!

:-)