{"id":882,"date":"2010-12-18T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2010-12-18T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T16:12:25","slug":"on-being-grateful-and-the-race-with-old-man-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"On being grateful and the race with Old Man Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kelleyholidaycard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-883\" title=\"Kelleyholidaycard\" src=\"http:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Kelleyholidaycard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the blush has even come off a new year, I rush out into it, bull in a china shop style, just to see if I can out-smart Old Man Time. He and I have been running this life-marathon for longer than I can remember, and I am not sure where he manages to get his bag tricks but somehow he stealths me every time and the year just seems to slip away. Now I am not going to complain about that too much because I have a few tricks of my own for the old guy and I always leave benchmarks along the way, just in case there was a notion I may have been sitting around picking daisies. At the end of the year, I make a mental tally of things achieved, people I wanted to get to know better, things I wanted to do with my kids, husband, family and usually end up feeling ok about it all.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if I make a difference, but I try to and that\u2019s something I put value on. I am grateful for all those who gave and shared and took risks with me , cried and laughed til it hurt. You all make a difference in my life. I am grateful to love what I do and thank my lucky stars that I have the most amazing people around me who support all my wild and wacky dreams and ambitions. Without you, I think I would be wallowing in a boo-hoo-hoo-fest, a long time ago. Anyway, this year\u2019s race is almost done, and while its been challenging, I am satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>To O.M.T\u2014 I&#8217;ll be waiting for you,. Let the race begin!<\/p>\n<p>Joyeux No\u00ebl to all<\/p>\n<p><em>TBS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the blush has even come off a new year, I rush out into it, bull in a china shop style, just to see if I can out-smart Old Man Time. He and I have been running this life-marathon for longer than I can remember, and I am not sure where he manages to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[194],"tags":[386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebeautysleuth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}