Heading Home, Blog Interview Recalling Home, Gratitude.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I'm getting ready for my long flight home, which will start late tonight.

I want to share this picture, because it's just too funny.

The guy is stealing a quiet moment to talk on his cellphone--and is in the store window tete-a-tete with the half-dressed mannequin!

So, as I prepare to wind the clock back eleven hours and return to the land of winter, I find myself full of word-shards from assorted languages, bristly with half-thunk thoughts, lots for my brain to sieve on the long journey.

My good friend Joanna Steven just published an interview I did with her almost a year ago--publication got held up because her gorgeous baby was born, but it's so interesting to see now what I was saying back then about eating healthily and high-raw in an Alaskan winter. When I'm home and decompressed, I'll prepare an update.

I don't know how I'll keep things together back home, but I seem to have behaved myself fairly well here--been helpful and fairly even-keeled. How did I manage that?

Well, I took my pills. I almost left one important bag of tiny pills behind in Anchorage and had to run back for it, and did so...

(ouch)

I prepared and shared (and ate) good food...

And I got outside every day. I love the nature here--it's so absorbingly beautiful.

I'm grateful for all these helpers, and for the ways I've helped myself, and for the wonderful opportunity to spend time with my family and see myself in context, for once.

Do you learn about yourself when you visit with your family? Do you like what you see?