Welcome to another year by the western hemisphere reckoning. We survive the Mayan end of the world on Dec 21, another Christmas shopping season adn most of us are here to continue on.
I do not make resolutions any more because in the end, I end up doing what I wanted to anyways.
Island life continues on its daily progression - work , eat sleep, repeat for 5 days straight. On the weekends, house work, yard work or just doing something constructive is the name of the game.
Over Christmas, the wife and youngest daughter decided to sped the holiday with the in-laws in Canada. Great idea and off we went on the afternoon Dec 20th. 4 hours later, the temp was below freezing and we were seeing snow on the drive from the airport in Toronto.
I am used to the cold, and usually 2 or 3 days after we arrive in Canada, I am fine. But this time it was different. Don't know if it was the flu that everyone picked up and had for most of the trip or if I am just getting older, but it was not as enjoyable. Maybe never seeing the sun for the whole 11 days we were their contributed to it? Don't know.
But it was nice to come back home and thaw out. I felt sluggish for the first couple weeks as I continued to battle the flu but everything is back to "normal" now.
Nothing has changed. From chickens to gardening, cutting the grass or small projects, island life continues.
We can look at 2013 as a chance to continue as we are or we can take steps to better ourselves - whether through education, charity or personal development. I have come to realize that life is what we make of it.
Wishing everyone a late happy new year and let us become better persons!
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