Gratitude

All in all, 2023 was another great year. And although I’m not a fan of cold weather, I’m struck how blessed I am to have Clooney and the amazing David Krempels Brain Injury Center community to return back to: Have a blessed 2024!  

Witnessing his journey to build a life where he positively impacts so many lives as a teacher and coach, and who with my favorite Sister-in law Katie, has given us two little angels (Nora and Ruby!) has been a privilege and inspiring. Of course, perhaps my favorite moment with Andy wasn’t exactly one for a Hallmark Movie…

With the National Holiday named for the sentiment of gratitude just passed and because I’ve often found it a difficult topic and feeling, (as evidenced by a prior post; https://morethanaspeedbump.com/so-many-g-words/), let’s examine gratitude a bit…

A term that seems to have come into the current day lexicon is Humblebrag. Now, I only bring up this form of modest bragging to preface the latest More Than a Speed Bump post as I guess you could say it is itself a little braggadocious! Regardless, I share the following shot of inspiration not to boast, but out of gratitude.            

How blessed I was for to have such an amazing team to make the rehabilitation journey with! Allow me to concur with the thought that this piece could easily been called Non-Abandonment, however, in my case the abandonment isn’t by others rather can be of myself.

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but it happened without notice, without bells and whistles. At some point I made the shift from a life consumed with “real” urgent issues, triage type of medical stuff in the early period after a severe head injury, to one in which I continually manifest my own distress and emotional trauma, or at least “make mountains out of molehills”.