Happy, Healthy New Year

Do you know what the best thing about getting sick is? Getting better.

I get one bad cold every year, usually in January. The cold typically lasts ten days. There is always a point when I can no longer remember what it feels like to feel good, and can't imagine ever having energy again. It's a horrible, futile feeling.

Then, one day I wake up and want to get out of bed. And I want to get dressed and do things. And I realize that I feel good. The joy spreads from my heart down to my toes and I just want to shout out to the world that life is great.

That moment is what is good about being sick.

I got to experience that feeling this week, and it was just as great as it always is. I've been madly making up for the ten days of my life I lost to this cold, working on putting changes into the novel, doing the writing exercises from The Sound of Paper, and checking out a fun writing contest that I'm going to enter (more on that later). It feels so great to feel good.

Belated Happy New Year. I hope 2006 finds you healthy and feeling good.