Welcome to the future.

Every year there has always been an adjustment period- and I don't mean adjusting to the new year and what it brings, because honestly- how much difference can that one day that separates one day from the other? One year to the next? The end of the decade to the beginning of the next? With so much hope and all of the emotions and feelings that comes with the idea of a 'simple' change of the calendar, what do we make of that? We as Americans like to make promises, like to resolute and enjoy the idea of thinking that what was once impossible, even if only days before, could now be possible. So we put on a smile and face the day with a lighter heart and perhaps a warmer welcome to a stranger, afterall- at this point we have something in common, and it all starts with three words- Happy New Year!
Perhaps something that changes, which I alluded to in the first few words of this post, this time is not one number, it is two. No longer are we in the years of 200- and for those of you who have spent the past 9+ years writing these numbers, strategically placed together, there is an adjustment period. And for some reason, this year I have a feeling that writing 2010 will happen right away for me, or at least sooner than the habit has formed in years past. Why you might ask? I'm not sure.. I guess it is just a feeling.
So whether you decide that you like to say two-thousand-ten, or twenty-ten, I would like to stretch out a warm welcome to the new year! Wherever you may find yourself today, I hope you take a chance to enjoy the company of which surrounds you, the events of the past that have lead you to where you stand (or sit) currently, and of course the joy of the journey for which we can all look forward to. And I will pass along a hope that whatever it is that you decide to do, change, adjust, eliminate, color, so forth and so on, that you decide to follow through, to stick to it and to help others along the way.



Always with hope, always in love,
Steph