Happy New Year

The last couple of years my new year's resolutions

have included writing 25 blog posts.
25!

Oops.
I think I averaged 1? Maybe 2...
Part of the reason is I'm not sure if what I have to say is all that
earth shattering. 
But I read enough blogs to know, 
earth shattering doesn't happen as
frequently as we might think.

Then last year,
LIFE HAPPENED.
Covid
Breonna Taylor
George Floyd
Rayshard Brooks
Politics
And when I thought about that stuff
I couldn't help but wonder -
what happens when life isn't random?
And that's been my struggle
How do you make sense of a world where
evil 
seems to be more and more prevalent? 
I don't know.
What I do know: 
life is full of choices
and I choose to greet each day with
love and joy;
share that 
love and joy 
with the people around me
and hope, especially with the kids 
I work with, some of it 
sticks.

You can call me a
Pollyana
You can tell me I'm 
dreaming
but for me both of those are better
than the alternative.

Forget earth shattering, maybe it's just enough

to sit and write.

1 down; 24 to go.

 LIFE IS RANDOM LOVE IS NOTTM