[Thoughts on mindset...cognizant that we aren't in control but how often I try...] I have been thinking a lot about how to enter this year -- a year that comes whether I'm ready or not, whether I've asked it to or not... it doesn't make any difference. Time passes. So how shall I spend it so it doesn't spend me? Be still. : : : Open handed I walk into the room not able to fix nor change nor answer. There it is. Can't wrap my hands around it so I leave them open. Be sti

I awoke to snow this time last week. I didn’t really expect it. Any of it, actually. They’d said earlier in the week that it would snow, but snow is rare in Atlanta in December – and often not in our winter at all. But, it actually had snowed on Friday, enough for schools to close early and traffic patterns to change. Later, during the night, I heard the melting snow draining through the gutters and figured I would awaken to slush in the morning. Instead, it was snowing…that