• smiling woman sitting on sunflower field

    More smiles, fewer tears this new year

    And so here it is, a new year, and with it all the renewed hopes and dreams we carried over. Last year, I saw thousands of colors up in the sky, up close and from afar. And despite my life throes, I enjoyed their charm; that appeal that only sunrises and sunsets have.  Last year, a vagabond traveling miles on foot, by train, by plane… so many miles that even Guinness World Records wouldn’t understand; living in my mind more than I did in the present, in darkness and lonely times. I learned why we seek company, maybe so as not to listen to our thoughts when they tell us…