see you next year

All day I have been reflecting on this past year.

2013 has been robust:

{highs}

marked with wonder & excitement; beauty & adventure; laughter & togetherness; health & optimism; and

{lows}

burdened with grief & disappointment; uncertainty & loss; tears & separation; illness & depression.

Today I feel:

thankful to have made my way across life's terrain to this: the eve of a new year and

a sense of peace, knowing I am not alone in this journey.

I have no doubt the new year will be at least as treacherous and disquieting as the last but I maintain confidence 2014 will also bring with it a beauty and hope I cannot know until we get there. 

I look forward to the terrain ahead.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 

to you and yours!