A whole new year

It takes me a few days to dip my toes in the pond of a big new scary year. I don't want to fall into the humdrum group of new year's resolutioners, with the "going to lose 25 pounds" or "going to cook a healthy dinner from scratch every day" entries in my journal. Yet I do feel a certain lift in my spirits contemplating a blank calendar, starting a new diary, and yes, cooking two healthy meals from scratch all in a row.

It could just be that after days of torrential rain storms, the sun came out today.