New Year

With hours to go before 2009, I wish to say that 2008 has been full of surprise and frustration. Surprise in the renewed strength of the American Progressive movement and frustration that so many could enthusiastically join it without the least clue about what it is about. So this year I resolve to educate myself about progressive causes and get better at implementing the changes that I need to be more progressive in my day to day life. I hope to bring others along with me but if I am alone I accept that each life that is more aware is a step forward. So teaspoon at the ready, I stand prepared for a new year and new surprises.

One extra thing- get tested as a bone marrow donor, give blood when you can and if possible become prepared to donate organs so that other teaspoons can be raised when they might have been lost. Each life has something to give if we are prepared to learn.

Christmas with the Family

We have arrived at my parents' house and the season begins. We usually come out Christmas day after Christmas eve service but with my father's illness we are foregoing the fight over going to church. The gathering begins with my sister's arrival from Toronto and the fighting over the computer- blogging, barely started, will be light until I get home and it is only three people fighting for time.