Posts Tagged ‘2020 goal setting’

The sun rides higherEvery trip.The sidewalk shoesIcicles drip.A snowstorm comes,And cars are stuck,Though road salt fliesFrom the old town truck.The chickadeesGrow plump on seedThat Mother poursWhere they can feed,And snipping, snippingScissors runTo cut out heartsFor everyone. – February by John Updike We have, indeed, seen a bit of snow and many-a-chickadee lately at our feeders!…

January isa clean white sheet, newly-ironed;an empty page;a field of freshly-fallen snowwaiting to be mappedby our footsteps.– John Foster Hello, friends! Hello, new year! Oh, how refreshing you are already! Want to make January extra refreshing—and avoid jumping ship on your new goals mid-month? Remember these two words: pace yourself. There are a lot of…

No matter how something begins, or what happens in the middle, it’s the punctuation on the end that changes everything. Let’s put an exclamation point on this year and end it well, shall we?! Praise the Lord for the thrill of hope this final month of the year brings. I’ve started my own PowerSheets and…

“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” – Victoria Erickson Well, friends. We’ve made it through 10 months of a wild year. The falling leaves remind us that, as everything seeps back into the cold earth for winter, there’s something happening beneath the surface: spring is…