Adios 2013

image: Marianne Sansum

It's been quite a year.

The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the happy, the sad, the amazing, the unexpected, the kick in the ass when I needed it most, or when I needed it the least.

It was a year filled with plot twists galore; a movie that I am now watching from the perspective of time passed.

It was one of the most emotionally, gut wrenching, years of my life.

I faked it, beautifully, through many a day.

THANK YOU for being a part of this journey. You keep my humbled with every like on FB, every comment, every share, every phone call, text or email.

Welcome 2014.

Here's to adventures of love, joy, success, prosperity, the goodness of humanity, the delight of everyday life and more love.

Let's all rock it. OK?

Christmas Day - my tall teens and I - bunny ears by Peter

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.

~ Mary Oliver

Here's to new beginnings and the new year.

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