2016

Beginnings are so refreshing. As a child I always looked forward to the beginning of the school year and, as with any beginning, had a mental list of my goals and plans for the year. The beginning of the day is my favorite and most productive time of the day. I even secretly love Mondays since they are the beginning of a new week.

People love fresh starts. It is an opportunity to improve on what’s been done and a chance to put the past behind. It is a funny thing that we do, that comfort and security in “starting over”. The New Year is the ultimate beginning. A new year, a new you? Your best year yet? New goals and of course those new year’s resolutions.

I have a few notebooks that I use to write to-do lists, ideas, and blog entries. I was looking for the notebook that I’ve been using lately to write this very blog post, when I came across an older book. I opened it where it was bookmarked to read, New Year’s Resolutions 2016, I laughed out loud. There were three… I didn’t accomplish any of them. To save myself the disappointment, I’ll skip on the resolutions this year and instead think about this, every tomorrow is an outcome of today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time. We hear it time and time again, live in the now, make the best of today, be present in your life. It is a beautiful thing, but much easier said than done. So for 2017 let us strive to learn from the past, live in the present to ensure a future. If your day didn’t go as hoped, no worries, there is a new beginning tomorrow.

Happy New Year.

“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither find an end in the other.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Here are some of my favorite pictures and moments of 2016.