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2020

It’s January 1, and before we know it we’ve found ourselves on the back side of another year (and another decade). It’s a special moment when time presents us with an opportunity for reevaluating ourselves, our habits, and our lives — where we’ve been, and where we are going. Don’t neglect that opportunity. Change is like the fresh air in our life, and we need just enough to keep our lungs and blood full of oxygen. We get worn down over the course of a year, and then like magic we get this wonderful new vitality out of nowhere that gives us the strength to start again, with new determination and a new sense of purpose. Use it for something good.

I pray that God bless and preserve all of you in the new year. Going by the news, we’re in for interesting times.

The Year in Pictures — 2019 Edition

Posted on December 30, 2019 in Journal

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Welcome to this retroactively inserted yearly retrospective. The date I am writing this is actually December 30, 2020. If you’ve found this page, that means you’ve stumbled upon some content that, while genuinely old, was not originally posted on this date. Greetings from the future! Or something. I suppose I could make some joke right now warning you to “turn back” from the dread year 2020, but that whole bit seems tired and depressing.

In 2019 I opted to go for a minimalist approach for my yearly “Best Of” gallery, meaning I was apparently too lazy to sift through all my photos and make some hard choices. Tsk Tsk. I plan to revisit 2019 at some point in the future and rectify that situation. After all, we had a splendid family vacation that took us to some amazing parts of the country, and this pitiful collection of 24 photos just doesn’t begin to do it justice. Not to mention this was the last year of my working stint in Pasadena, trips with Kassi to Sequoia and Channel Islands National Parks, concert photos from the Plano Balloon Festival, and whole lot more that I thankfully blogged about during the year.

Take a look!