And Now For the Debrief - The oddest things have been floating through my mind since Crown in general, and my journal posts in particular. First, thank you everyone for all your compliments, good wishes, mazel tov's, and congratulations. I've appreciate all of you very much, even to the point of embarrassment. I *would* like to see some normalacy in life now, really I would. This has been a whirlwind the past few months, this past year, these past several years. I'm ready for things to calm down now, really I am.

On an unusual and very vague note, I'm extremely grateful right now to a friend, for kind words and simple communication. Someone has gone up a hundred gold stars in my book, and that's just so fantastic. The world isn't perfect, there are injustices everywhere, and human nature is a mess. But there are treasures in people, and I believe very strongly in the worth of the people around me. And this worth was shown, in the strangest of circumstances. I'm so incredibly thankful.

Now I need to wrap up the monthly newsletter, which should have been published "on or before the 10th of the month" [the new publishing schedule], but I have a feeling it's going out after midnight tonight. *sigh* I have only myself to blame, so time to stop writing in my journal, and time to finish editing.

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Today's Blessing That I'm Thankful For: Someone with whom I exchanged private conversation. You are a blessing.