Here we are, another year ahead and the many experiences awaiting us all! I always look back and try to reflect upon all the many new people, experiences and discoveries I have made over the past year. It is always a very humbling experience as I make to “plan” and organize my life and time. I love to get out my fresh datebook, clear of my scribbles, scratch outs and notes and begin filling in dates, trips, birthdays…. For some odd reason, it gives me a good feeling and I sit back thinking I am in control. That is usually the last moment of the New Year that I feel that way!

Soon, life creeps in and what I thought was a plan becomes a blur of new scribbles, notes and for the most part, anything but control. It is usually then that I take the time to reflect upon all that I didn’t see coming in the past year that surprised me unannounced and made its way into my datebook. While there are a handful of the unfortunate, the heart breaking or the “rug out from under you” moments and events, for the most part, all the surprise and unplanned entries in my datebook are ones that I would never trade away or erase if they were by chance “penciled in”. I realize that those are what brings life into the days of the week as they trudge by, they bring a reason for thought, laughter, discovery and human realism.

So, I start this year as I do every other one- with high hopes, with a trusting heart, a clean slate and ready to fill in the blanks of my datebook and days.

Hope to see you in the shop, hope to perhaps mark you down in my datebook and will look forward to all the entries this year!

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