Goodbye 15

In just a few days 2015 will be a speck in the review mirror of my life. Gone will be the long days and even longer nights alone because of deployment. A new year will begin with more days and nights to go, but they are fewer than the ones I will leave behind.

As I look forward to a new year, a new beginning to get it right, and a new start - a chance to begin again - I hope that I will take the clean slate and fill it with so much love, joy, friendship, adventure, and tradition. I want to finally learn to sew, design "my room", finish that book I started 29 years ago long before technology, on an old typewriter. I want to spend long nights and weekends with my family, fish the lake with my husband, I want to learn something new and perfect something old. I want to capture more of the cherishable moments with my eyes and heart instead of behing the camera of my phone.

I want to travel with my love and hold hands endlessly. I want to take up a craft and throw intimate parties. I want to live more than I have in recent years. To laugh  more and cry less. To blog, to vlog...to whatever. I long to remember the past but let go of the pain...to tell that story. To be there, here, more....and less....depending.

Soon the chapter of this year will end and I will flip the page to write the next one. I want to. I need to. My story is just beginning to get good again.

Peace