Giving Thanks: 2010
This is a good idea Leila! I feel like I should do this every week to put things in perspective but here it goes for this year. I am eternally grateful for:
- The best group of friends I have ever had in my life. Some old, some new, but all amazingly supportive and it’s making all the difference.
- My Parents who have allowed me to struggle and learn life’s lessons the way I prefer, the really really hard way. Earlier this year, when I almost gave up because it was just too hard, they were able to help me to afford the time and the opportunities I needed to get my life on track.
- Bridget and the Squares has started being fun again. It is an emotional release again. I am writing again. We are really moving forward. This year I released my first full length album, found the best new bandmates I could hope for, booked our first tour on my own, wrote some great new songs, started a new collaboration, and have just been all around productive and positive! But the main thing I am thankful for is that for the first time in my life, I really want this and I’m trying everything to succeed.
-I live in Brooklyn and I love living in Brooklyn. I love NY, it has inspired me and motivated me and given me opportunities I would never have if I lived anywhere else.
- Francie Nolan, still best cat ever.
- 67 Burger/Black Shack, best food, best people, most flexible schedule ever, and amazingly supportive management/owners.
-Trash bar karaoke
- Bowery Poetry Club/NYC Talent Show, my home away from home.
- For the first time in 10 years, I’m medicine free, not seeing a therapist, and I feel like I’m handling myself quite alright, minus the occasional freak out. But that’s nothing a few tear drenched pancakes at Tina’s at 4AM on a tuesday won’t cure.
-Last but not least, all the moments of Zen walking alone around Manhattan and Brooklyn taking in sunsets, snowdrifts, wind blown inside out umbrellas, broken glass, playing with stray kittens in the street at 3AM, and getting drenched in the rain then seeing a double rainbow.
I remember thinking this new years, this is going to be a good year. This might be the best year of my life thus far. Even though it was hard, hard does not equal bad, when you have to struggle the end result is that much better.
