Many years ago there was an Ad for Drug Free America or some such group that said "This is your brain, This is your brain on drugs" Many funny memes and posters were made after that like your brain in school, your brain on the ski slopes...

My house is the same today as yesterday; but everything I look at looks different to me. My husband left to go to Oregon, and back to the boat. That is all.

In some ways I will be terribly lonely, but I will also have more flexibility and maybe in other ways less....He had fun with his grandchildren and they really enjoyed him.

I don't know why someone can make a place feel so different just by coming in or by leaving.

The sun wasn't here very long, but lately, as I am holding up indoors, I have been directed to look more at the windows. I have to admit it is a challenge to find anything interesting there, I just have to work at it.

Maybe this year will be just as challenging to see the value beyond the obvious.

I wonder?

This morning we were challenged to remember what Moses taught Aaron and the priests and their children to Bless the people of Israel, in the name of the Lord.

Aaron’s Benediction
      Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:

The LORD bless you, and keep you;

The LORD make His face shine on you,
         And be gracious to you;

The LORD lift up His countenance on you,
         And give you peace.’

“So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them.”

I ask that this New Year be blessed in the name of the Lord.