Somehow it is the festive time of year once more, and I want to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year. I also want to thank you for all the support you have shown me and this blog.
In this season of love and good will, it is, I believe, important to pause a moment and reflect on our blessings and the important people in our lives. I am so very grateful for my husband, and sons and their families, and faithful friends, and good health. And the list could go on.
It is my hope that everyone who reads these words may do the same in his or her own way. Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate the holiday. The sentiment applies to those of you who do not.
I wish the very best wishes to you all during this time of renewal, rebirth, and rejoicing. A Happy Holiday to you all!
Wow! Can you believe it? Not another new year already. Didn't 2011 just get here?
Alas, the passing of time trumps all our wishes of holding onto cherished memories and people, too. That trite but true axiom is particularly poignant to me this year, as we will be spending more of our time in Florida and less in St. Louis, which is home.
While this decision was about ten years in the making, I find myself approaching it with two minds, as the ancient Greeks were fond of saying.
The anticipation of spending more time in the Tampa Bay area is, for us, undeniably appealing. And being right in the heart of a city again suits us after years living in the heart of London. Our beach condo also is and will continue to be a respite from that very city as well.
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| Tampa Skyline at Night |
Sounds like a fantastic plan, right? It would be except for that pesky "other mind" insinuating itself into the place where true and highly valued friends are.
Good friends and cherished relatives. That is decidedly the downside of such a decision. Yes, of course, we will be back frequently, but it cannot be exactly the same ever again. There is an invisible chasm, a pulling ever so slightly away, and that's the truth of it.
What is one to do? I don't know the answer to that question. I only know what probably will happen from our experiences in other times and other places. Those friends who have been so cherished will remain so no matter how far away we are in distance. We will continue exactly where we left off in a previous time. And with some others, not so much. The human experience, after all...
So, off we go to Tampa. New experiences. New friends. New milieu. And old and dear friends and family never forgotten, never not concerned about and never devalued. It is the fabric of life in this modern world.
Happy New Year, Dear Readers. I wish you all the very best of everything in this coming year.
