Happy New Year

I hope tomorrow to have a post about the year, because it’s been a while since I’ve found time to share more than a moment here, and it would be nice to chat.

In the meantime, here is sunrise in Seattle on the last day of the decade, taken (prosaically enough) from the parking lot of the grocery store. Yes, I was there early: I have learned that all the bread is fresh and there is never a long checkout line. The meat and fish guys are cheerfully sharpening their knives, the vegetable guys are putting brightly-colored produce into the bins, the deli people are laughing and making sandwiches for the lunch rush. There are birds who live in the rafters; they fluff and flutter, and you can only hear their little voices when there aren’t so many people. A market in the first hour is a place of becoming; everything feels wide open and full of possibility.

And so too does the sky. And so too does the year, the decade, the life.

Enjoy your day, and Happy New Year to us all.