Dwindling Days

There is something about this time in-between Christmas and New Year's that invites reflection. Perhaps it is because everyone and their brother is doing a "Year in Review" or Countdowns of music and highest grossing movies. We pause, we look back at the past 365 days, and we at 2015 like a blank canvass beckoning us to create something new, different. That is what resolutions are after all. They are our attempt to re-create, re-imagine, and re-purpose our present life in a new way. I think it is healthy to look back at the last year, but not only as a trip down memory lane. Rather, ask yourself, when did you feel most fully alive ? For me, it was on our summer vacation to Disney World. Yes, it was hot...Florida tends to be that way in the summer. Yes, it was crowded...Disney tends to be that way, almost always. But there was something about the ease of laughter in our family, we did not try to do it all, we took it easy ourselves. Unfortunately, that va