Let us Welcome the New Year

And now let us welcome the new year - full of new things that have never been ~ Rainer Maria Rilke







Another fresh start. The Christian year began with Advent, and now the calendar tells us of still another beginning.  We've purchased a new calendar for the wall - our old one finished, filled with scribbles and reminders and names, each mark reminding us of birthdays and evenings out and family deaths and dinners with friends. Reasons to celebrate and reasons for sorrow, but mostly celebrat...