We had a fierce winter storm here yesterday, but today dawned gorgeous pink, gold, and blue, so my true friend Mattie and I went for a walk up the snow-covered road. Don’t you find that one of the best times for thinking is when you are outside walking? I do.

One of the things that I thought about as I trudged along and Mattie hurtled along was that I haven’t posted a blog entry in a long time. My original plan was to write two blog entries per month. Well, you see how that’s gone. The story of my procrastinating life! Actually, life has gotten in the way. December was a month of change and some difficulty and a whole lot of busyness; I have no excuse for January’s couch-potato frame-of-mind.

Part of the stumbling block was that maybe I thought I had to write a thoughtful, fairly lengthy essay on life each time I sat at my laptop and sifted through the words that are careening around in my brain. But what I realized, as I hiked up the road and later skied through the field, is that it’s really just a matter of doing it at all.

So that’s it for today. The end. Actually, it’s another start. Sometimes that’s enough.

Peace, my friends, and thank you for reading!