Rebuilt

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

 

2008 made an unceremonious exit from my apartment. No fanfare, no Champagne and certainly no tears to heralded its departure. Much like the 2008 Michigan football team, for me, 2008 was a “rebuilding year”. For that is what one must do when one is seemingly left with nothing. However, when one has nowhere to go but up, it is amazing how far one can climb. 

Frankly,





 




P.S. As you may have guessed, I made it home for Christmas and a safe, if slightly delayed return to DC.

“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.”

~ T.S. Eliot