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dear 2010,
thank you for chicago. and boston. and tybee.
thank you for getaways, escapes, and the peace found there.
thank you for holding our hands through decision-making, for bringing family and friends inside our home.
thank you for new opportunities, for graduations and fresh starts.
thank you for book club and sunday suppers and chew* chats and community.
thank you for friends, new and old.
thank you what you gave and yes, even what you took away.
you were a roller coaster ride.
winter was relaxing and quiet.
spring was stressful, filled with decisions and choices and hard things.
summer was lazy and a little bit lonely, but wonderful in its own way.
fall was not how i imagined it to be: bouquets of sharpened pencils, papers written, grades earned.
it was not how i pictured, and i've had a hard time letting go of what i wanted it to be.
but i'm learning.
i guess, for me, that's what you will amount to in my history books.
you'll be the year filled with some growing pains, with stretching and learning who i am and who i am called to be.
you were a blessing. each year is.
but you also introduced us to some challenges, and i'm ready to embrace a new chapter, to take the things i've learned from you and apply them to a new year.
my aim for 2010 was to live intentionally and simply.
some days, that was true. many days, i failed miserably.
the purpose of goals and resolutions, i think, is to keep aiming. we're not always going to succeed.
but we've got to keep trying.
you were the year i kept trying, the year i didn't give up.
that's good enough for me.
4 comments:
Happy New Year!! I hope 2011 is a fabulous year for you!!
I love this. Great way to thank 2010 :)
beautiful blog
Lovely post Annie! You're so right that all we can do is try - if you try and fail at least you tried, right? Happy new year to you!
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