We had a nontraditional Thanksgiving today. I felt much better; my stomach bug was brief, for which I’m grateful. In addition to making art and wrapping gifts, I made chocolate chip cookies. Dinner was chili with rice. I’ll make a traditional meal this weekend, when my husband feels better and can actually taste food again.<\/p>\n
I’ve also made a decision to turn down the job offer from the company I worked for. Thanks to all who responded with comments and emails. The perspective helped. I am seriously interested in pursuing the non-profit opportunity, so I will develop that prospect. If that doesn’t come through, there will be other possibilities. I am at a point in my life where I prefer to work to live, rather than live to work. A job that would consume me to the point of excluding all else is a form of death. Is that dramatic, to put it that way? I don’t think so. Work is important; it has its place — among other important things, such as relationships, creativity, fun, relaxation. <\/p>\n
While this has been a low-key holiday, it has still been good. I’m thankful we stayed home, actually. The traffic was horrible throughout the day; our jaunt to a park to hike would have taken more hours on the road than the hike itself. And I’m thankful for my peeps, my health, my needs being met and then some. I am grateful to be<\/em>. I hope you are, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had a nontraditional Thanksgiving today. I felt much better; my stomach bug was brief, for which I’m grateful. In addition to making art and wrapping gifts, I made chocolate chip cookies. Dinner was chili with rice. I’ll make a traditional meal this weekend, when my husband feels better and can actually taste food again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10972,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/10972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}