Happy New Year!
With the flip of a simple page on our calendar, with a drop of a silver shimmery ball in Times Square, we’re thrust into a brand New Year, whether we’re ready, or whether we like it, or not. It doesn’t take long for the New Year to settle in and make itself at home in our daily lives. How easy it would be to let the promise of a New Year slip away into the dreariness of January.
If you haven’t made any plans or promises to yourself to do something completely new or different in 2008, to do something scary or spectacular, stop reading and pause to consider the endless possibilities that await you in the coming weeks and months ahead. They say that time waits for no man and that there are basically three types of people inhabiting planet Earth: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who haven’t a clue what’s happening.
Put yourself in the first group and touch the world. Give yourself away through some volunteer work, have coffee with a friend you haven’t seen in years, mend a broken family relationship. Take that once-in-a-lifetime trip you’ve always wanted to take.
This year, I wish you will be surrounded by the unconditional love of family and friends, luxuriate in the peace that comes with good health, and relish the joy that comes from knowing you are at peace with God.
If you are lacking in any of these three areas, there’s an easy way to make it all good: God is the easiest to get right. Everything else falls into place after that.
In my quest to touch the world through the hearts that stop by my website, I’ve added:
- A video called ‘An Ode to Newfoundland’ to take you to a place in Canada that remains as beautiful, both in its scenery and its people, as it did five hundred years ago when John Cabot landed at Bonavista.
- A poem written by my great-grandfather almost 100 years ago about his harrowing shipwreck experience aboard the ‘Purple G’ schooner. His reflections remind us that life is precious.
- A photo gallery of the abandoned tunnel system under the city of Scarborough that once ran under a top-secret WWII munitions plant called GECO.
- A ‘Hearts of Stonebridge Cove’ page. Stonebridge Cove is the town where a new series of novels will be set. Founded in the early 1800s, the town perches precariously along a steep bluff rising from the Atlantic Ocean, the surf pounding the shore, and the breath-taking view of the sea from the parkland at the top muted only by the limits of our short-sightedness. Although Stonebridge Cove has grown to include a leading-edge regional hospital, it still overflows with small-town appeal and big-hearted residents. In the coming weeks and months, you’ll meet the characters of Stonebridge Cove and find a photo gallery of the town.
God bless,
Barbara
Hi Barbara,
It’s been five months since I’ve checked your site—I’m amazed at its quality. I’m going to explore it.
Ann and I are in Florida until mid-april, then home in time for taxes!
Barry and his crew arrive next monday–were looking forward to them coming. Rest of family is coming later in month.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Skip and Ann
Skip and Ann:
Thanks for dropping by! We’re enjoying an old fashioned Canadian winter here in Toronto, so you’re definitely in the right place if lots of snow and -20C temps aren’t your favourite weather conditions.
Please give my warm regards to Barry and his family.
Take good care of each other, and please do stay in touch!
Barbara