Celebration: Good Health - Finally

After nearly a month-long sinus infection followed by another month where the cough just lingered and lingered and lingered and lingered and lingered--during which time I wasn't getting much sleep because I kept waking up coughing, I have gone almost a whole week without one single cough rising up inside of me. Have to say that I am feeling MUCH more interested in interacting with the outside world on a regular basis.

Good health is something I sometimes forget to celebrate. My thoughts usually goes like this:

Healthy? --> Gotta get stuff done, gotta get stuff done
Sick? --> Waaaaaa! Why am I sick? Who can I get to feel bad for me so that I feel appreciated even though I'm being a waste of space? Waaaaaa!
Healthy? --> Gotta get stuff done, gotta get stuff done

Or something along those lines. So when I am feeling healthy, mostly what I celebrate are things I do or things I encounter outside of my own body. My thoughts aren't usually, "Wow! What a wonder and a blessing to be able to sleep all night! Wow! I can have a whole conversation without my voice devolving into scratchy incomprehensibility! Wow! I can move my limbs without feeling like I'm moving through water! Wow! I feel NO pain right now!"

But this week I am thinking those things and I'm really loving it. So, if you're feeling healthy too, let's take a moment to appreciate the fact that the worst thing happening with your body today is that maybe people are pinching it because you forgot to wear green. If you're not feeling healthy today, hopefully it means people will refrain from pinching you, and that's something to celebrate too.

This is how I felt most the time for the past couple months (boy, am I glad to be done with that!):

My four-year old niece took this picture. She told me exactly what to do with my face. Maybe someday she'll be a famous photographer for magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Also, if you've ever seen the movie Thoroughly Modern Milly, the situation with my pearls should be pretty funny to you.