To Exit With Grace
It somehow feels oddly fitting that the year should end with an unusual cold snap around these parts. That winter should settle in with such force and chill, driving us all to cozy inside and wait out the drafts and darkness with a forever-hope in warmer days to come with the impending new year. Communities just north of where I live have been pounded by hurricane-force winds off and on for weeks, causing the temperate to plummet with the wind chill and wreaking havoc on the towns and their residents. It's been a season of resilience - of accepting factors we cannot change and enduring unwanted disruption with a heart of courage. It's funny how this seems to reflect the latter half of my whole year. Exiting 2025 with biting cold and inconvenient realities has been a picture of life itself in the past several months. Almost weekly, more news has dropped of yet another loss or transition or unexpected change that's required a level of adaptation I did not anticipate just a ...
