The Year is Complete!

Please feel free to look back through the 365 days of 2010 sunrises, but "a year of getting up to meet the day" is officially completed. There will be no more new posts.

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Thank you so much for visiting.
A one year blog project in which I share a process of transitions: emptying of the nest, reacquainting with my rusty intellect, plowing onward with my first full length book, entering the second half of my first century, and generally reflecting on life.

(see Dec. 29th, 2009 entry for further explanation)

Monday, August 30, 2010

happy new year

sunrise:  5:55



I love these mornings when a thin veil of fog hugs the ground in the fields.  A fine covering of mist feels like a comfort to the earth - cool, gentle moisture held against the sun beaten ground.





The landscape is showing increasing signs of fall.  A wall of green, a bank of sumac, both tinged with red.  Sure signs of back to school.  It used to make me feel wistful when I was a kid, still basking in summer freedom.  But there was always that little stirring of excitement to begin anew - new class, new teacher, new me, new year.





Really, the beginning of school each fall feels a lot more like the new year than January 1st.  Sometimes I feel like we all should be holding our happy new year celebrations around Labor Day weekend.  I guess you could also make a solid argument for starting the year in the spring. 

What the heck, we could just have multiple new year celebrations throughout the calendar year.  It's always a good way to feel inspired to make a fresh start. 



That is really the allure of sunrise.  A fresh start every day.  It is a wonderful time of daily meditation, a way to feel that you get to begin again, on a regular basis.



T is all packed, has said her goodbyes.  In a few hours we are off to move her in to her new life.



thought for the day:  apples and sunrise


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