Happy New Year

Our celebrations may look different this year, but our sense of connectedness is stronger than ever. Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season. May you find peace, good health, and happiness in 2021.

I want to share a poem I read at the end of each year which speaks of great beginnings and quiet revolution. The beginning of a great journey we all have to begin some day, if we haven’t already. May 2021 be a year of great growth and progress for you and our country.

The Journey - by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -

though the whole house began to tremble

and you felt the old tug at your ankles.

“Mend my life!”

each voice cried.

But you didn’t stop.

You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations,

though their melancholy was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do-

determined to save

the only life you could save.

Warm wishes and gratitude,

Karon

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