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So, first: I hate complaining. I was so uncomfortable with my complainy posts that I've been avoiding my blog a little big, much in the fashion of waiting for the dog poop to dry up a little before you go scooping it up.

It reminds me that really I have it purty good, in the scheme of things. At the same time I wonder if maybe I complained a little more, say on a weekly basis, then I wouldn't get to feeling like Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen and start itching to set the world right on just how hard it is to be me. You know, all white and privileged and educated and shit.

Anyhoo. You all have been a tremendous help to me, in correctly identifying hormone surges as well as pinning down that sensation of having decision-making power wrested away (an interesting combination of feelings I remember from the infertility days, whee). And in reminding me that I am not my house. And that houses are scary, especially the parts with spiders in them. I'm pretty sure that's what's holding up the floor in some places -- heaps of exoskeletons bound with webs.

I needed a hearin' and an ass-kickin' and probably to stop with the carbs. Done, done, and done. There's a great recipe for low-carb honey cake I've been making for years, and honestly I like it better than the regular stuff -- it's less cloying.

The new year is about to begin. There is a lot of work ahead of us: people are setting fire to mosques and burning the Koran, the environment is getting filthier by the day and climate change appears to be kicking in right on schedule, the economy sputters along and people are hurting.

But saying there's work to be done is another way of saying there is hope. Churches and synagogues are coming out in support of Muslims. Religions are reframing the issue of our responsibility to the environment. We are taking steps forward and backward in LGBT rights -- but there's movement.

I wonder if this will be the year of a whole lot of ugliness being dragged out into the sunlight for all to see. May the sun burn off all that's foul and leave us with the clarity to do the right thing.

Comments

[Jenmaicha]

Shanah Tovah, Jo! And that blessing in the last paragraph: right on.

[Lilian]

Sigh. Yes. So much going on. Good (and sobering) thoughts for the new year.

[Jen (yup, another one)]

"Saying there's work to be done is another way of saying there is hope." Thank you. That's what I needed to hear now.

Happy New Year!

[Tine]

"May the sun burn off all that's foul and leave us with the clarity to do the right thing."

Amen, sister.

Also...I think you've mentioned that honey cake before? Please to share recipe?

[Jill]

Clap clap clap.

[Jo]

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/desserts/r/honeycake.htm

Better late than never, Tine! ;)