New Year Resolves

First day of a new year. Slept in a bit after our 2 a.m. doubleheader last night: hosting Perrins and Henshaws (our Guatemala and Australia travel buddies, respectively) for an early soup-and-bread game night (leek and barley soups, plus traditional Southern black-eyed peas, and home-made dill and oatmeal breads), then off to the Rathbuns for a gathering of our 35-year friends from our first pastorate. We rang in the new year with party favors, bubbly (non-alcoholic, for me), and Times Square coverage. I really value these relationships, both for their depth and longevity. I don't know that I'm all that good a friend myself, but it's great having what I would call true "social security" through those who unfailingly love and accept you.

One of the games we played in the course of the evening was asking about new year's resolutions, and mine was "write a daily blog." So far so good. : ) Maybe I'll make a new habit, thanks to Jay's initiative. I had supposed that Sharon put him up to the suggestion of a daily blog, knowing that I need a little boost off dead center, but was inrigued/pleased to find that he apparently came up with the idea and took action on his own. Guess he knows Ole Dad better than I thought. Very much looking forward to the daily discipline and to what it offers in shared meaning-making.