The tree is lit!
Just saw the tree being lit at Rockefeller Center via NBC.
Wishing for some odd reason I was there, however I am in a hotel room in Dallas.
It’s prettier than I remember over the last couple of years, much more festive. Being a Native New Yorker I sadly have to admit I have never been to the actual lighting ceremony.
Not sure if it’s my age, the fact my daughter is growing up, my nieces and nephews are growing into these beautifully talented young people or what but I am feeling a bit nostalgic.
Watching as the cameras pan over the audience listening to the amazing Diana Ross singing beautiful holiday melodies is stirring something in me.
I want to get home, want to get in the mood for the season. This is going to be a very special one as my precious daughter will be home with me and my partner. My mom lives close now, my aunt and uncle are here and my in laws are just beautiful people.
There is a feeling of thankfulness that is becoming more profound each day, I no longer resist it. I embrace it, I am learning to let it go and receive the warmth of happiness, the celebration of life, to see things with warm eyes.
It is that time of year and I will not push it away as I have done in the past, nope no longer.
So I welcome you happiness, I embrace you happiness.
It’s my turn now, I too want to smile from the inside out.
