on more than one day a year...

i am Thankful for:
- my mother's hugs (not just her hugs, but especially her hugs)
- my dad's perseverance
- my sister's friendship

i'll stop here. there are many things i am thankful for...many blessings i have received without deserving of them, or even asking for them...but the fact that i can sit in a room with those 3 people i just mentioned, and feel loved not condemned, and be understood for who i am...i don't have the words to say what that means to me.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice.
Not something to wish for, but to attain.
~William Jennings Bryan