2011 Here I come!

I went for a really nice walk yesterday.

Contemplating the turn of the calendar.

I don't feel any differently today than I did yesterday,

but I think this time of year causes us to reflect.

It has been a tumultuous couple of years for me.

Life sometimes changes in quarter inch segments,

and sometimes it hits you in the face like a brick.

I got hit with the brick and since then

the quarter inches have been piling up.

I am grateful that I am ending the year in a better

place than I began it.

I think I have finally found my footing again.

So it is with great reflection that I have decided to

embrace all the "good" and the "bad" things that

happened in my life.

I now know that all of the events of my life have lead me to this point.

I think I can now accept them all lovingly, even the painful ones.

This is one of our beaches.
Something you may not know about me is . . .
I am a Justice of the Peace.


In Connecticut we are blessed to be able to have same sex marriages.

Two weeks ago at this beach, in the freezing, windy cold,
I married two couples, one both men, the other both women.

The joy of the day was overwhelming.
And so was the temperature!

What I took away from that day was the the pure love
these couples had for each other.
They were embracing something they had wanted for a long time,
but were not permitted to have.

It really made me start to think about all I have that I take for granted.




So for today, and hopefully all the days that follow,
I am going to look at everything with clear attention . . .
with presence of mind.
With gratefulness for everything in my life.

My friends. Old and new!

My daughter


My family.


My community.


My fabric. no just kidding, well maybe not.

I think I better sign off, it's getting alittle deep around here.