An New Year

Here we are (as your mom says), little sweetheart - it’s both a New Year and a new decade.

Cold and crisp outside, I headed out for a run this morning. The air felt clear and it seemed very fitting.

May I do better this year, little sweetheart. May I always, increasingly find ways to be kind, to emulate the goodness that you so purely exemplify. May I look to you for guidance and example, and do our work, bring it to fruition, honor and conjure you.

Time, I know, little sweetheart, isn’t at what I think and feel it is just now, merely mortal. I know we, I know you are forever and all at once. And that I must just do the best that I can until I can rejoin you.

Please be near me, won't you, my little sweetheart? Strengthen my faith, strengthen my resolve. And take me to you the moment Heaven will allow.

With all my love on this first day of a brand new year.