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Goodbye 2013

Christmas card recapped the year...

Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness

by Mary Oliver

Every year we have been
witness to it: how the
world descends

into a rich mash, in order that
it may resume.
And therefore
who would cry out

to the petals on the ground
to stay,
knowing as we must,
how the vivacity of what was is married

to the vitality of what will be?
I don't say
it's easy, but
what else will do

if the love one claims to have for the world
be true?

So let us go on, cheerfully enough,
this and every crisping day,

though the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.


My Year in Review

January- Winning a prize for 25 times at YWCA, prayer/yoga retreat "Living on the Threshold" and learning to knit (kind of)

February- Recap Blog Challenge and Lenten Blog Challenge.... absolutely nothing happened in February... I'll guess it was cold and miserable...

March- Spring Break in Puerto Vallarta

April- #30daysofbiking and NWP (National Writing Project) Urban Sites presentation in Birmingham

May- Prince... live with Third Eye Girl... amazing... love him

June- Kayak a Wetland, Seldom Seen Festival, Maquoketa Caves... God's Country

July-  The Beer Dabbler, Craft Beers in Duluth, Larson Creek Bed and Breakfast (the South Shore?)

August- OAR in Okoboji, introduction to molasses, berry picking,  helped former college roommate move her son to college (getting old)

September- Harkin Steak Fry (Joe Biden and Julian Castro), A-Z music blog challenge (Hey!  NO ONE played with me :/  )

October- Sports Xtravaganze (Dallas), new furnace (goodbye space heaters), new iPad Mini (love it)

November- Talking Volumes, NCTE (National Council Teachers of English) presentation in Boston

December- new car alternator, frozen pipe sending water through my ceiling, and new boot for high ankle sprain... maybe December ended in darkness, so the new year will be bright...

Actually, it was a wonderful year, and I'm looking forward to the new year.

Happy New Year!!


Comments

LH said…
I loved reading along with your 2013.

And I like that line,

this and every crisping day.

Happy New Year, MM.
2:57 AM
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