the short of it all

Welcome 2010!... I'm ten days in and couldn't be more disappointed in you.  Ha!  Ten damn days into the new year, and I've already learned entirely too much.  Aside from having my feet in the sand on the Texas shoreline on New Years Day, my first 2010 vacation was about as painful as realizing sweet tea wasn't on the dollar menu at McDonalds in the South.  Of course, I'm speaking from the surface, which unfortunately can be easy to be the only thing one sees...

After hopping a plane home to Missouri early, and taking a couple days to configure my thoughts.. here's what I've come up with:

A)  You rarely get what you plan for, but if you allow yourself to see beauty in every outcome, life won't seem so unfair. 

B)  Missouri isn't so miserable after all... winter weather and all.

C)  The absolute most important things in life aren't things at all.. they're the people who keep you grounded.. the people who allow you to open your heart to give and receive the most beautiful feeling in the world. 

In short, without all of the ugly details, the start of my new year was an absolute, unexpected mess.  But I did get to look out into the ocean.  And I did get to come back with a new appreciation for my world here... at home. 

More philosophies on this later... but for now, Happy 2010.