now celebrating: gap week

We have reached that most wonderful time of the year — the time when we can finally stop celebrating!

When I was little (I remember thinking about this in the first house I lived in, so it would have been age 8 or under), I visualized the year as a calendar line.

Sort of like this:

January
February
March
…assorted other months…
November
December

It went down, in a line, right? And once you got to Christmas, which was obviously the end of the year, you were at the bottom. I “figured out” that the reason why we had these extra days after Christmas, but before New Years, was to get back to the top of the calendar. A gap week, like a behind the scenes reset button on the calendar of the year. (“Pardon the mess, it’ll just take us a few days to get the months back in order for you.”)

This made perfect sense to me.

(It kind of still does.)

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truer words…

Something happy, something thoughtful, and something funny!

Happy

Neil Gaiman’s New Year’s Wishes

Thoughtful

10 Ways to Love Others, including:

10. If you want to keep growing emotionally and spiritually for the rest of your life, accept this as your mantra and try to live as if it were true: Everything that I experience from another human being is either love, or a call for love.

Funny

First-grader-created versions of well known proverbs, including:

You can lead a horse to water, but how?

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