We're 3 days into 2009. So far, so good. It is cold, with a light snow falling. Feels very much like the middle of winter. Jitka and I just got back from an "out the door" hike up Fern Canyon and then to the summit of Bear Peak (8,461 ft.). A bit challenging, with a lot of ice on the rather steep trail. Back home we warmed up with some miso soup followed by Grandma's apple strudel.
New Year's eve brought some excitement. A big gust around 9pm brought a power line down in the yard behind ours. Started a fire in the brush which consumed the power pole. So we celebrated the arrival of 2009 in candlelight. Power was out about 5 hrs. Our woodstove kept the house reasonably warm.
Life is indeed a grand adventure, and I expect the end of 2009 will be very different than the beginning. It's only an illusion that things don't change. Everything is continually evolving, transforming or decaying. And even if it seems like our physical surroundings or life circumstances aren't changing (at least as quickly as we might want them to), we are changing inside. It's only because we choose to carry along our stale perceptions and habitual thought patterns from one moment to the next, from one day to the next, that the external world seems not to change. When we greet each new day, new month, new year as something that is indeed new, with fresh eyes and an open mind and heart, then the true beauty and magic of life will be apparent, and will always amaze and delight
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