“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.”
~ Barbara Kingsolver
“Today is the last sequential date of the century, ending an 11-year run. 12/13/14. The first being 01/02/03. Many of us may never see a date like this again in our lifetimes,” said my friend Jimmy Duckworth. I hadn’t realized the magnitude of the date until he pointed it out. This is just one in a long line of wonderful, scary, glorious, momentous, and sometimes little but important, things I’ve experienced in my near-fifty years. To mark the occasion, I decorated the house for the holiday, well, as much as the cats would allow anyway. I filled out my Christmas cards. I made chili. Christmas movies played in the background. My pitiful little tree that doubles as a house plant may be in its final Christmas season, but I’m ever so thankful for its years of service, and for the cats letting me do something to cheer up the place. 12/13/14 was a pretty ding dang awesome day full of Christmas cheer and blessings all ’round.
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