A Fresh Start

Monday January 4, the first day of the new week following the Christmas holidays, vacations, breaks, whatever, and it is time to return to business as usual. Students of all ages are back in school, business is full steam ahead, and we know we won’t be getting another official holiday until sometime in February. Most of the seasonal decorations have been put away until next year or are headed for an overfilled landfill, and the activities of the past few weeks will soon settle into the dusty recesses of our minds. We have looked back over the past year and look unknowingly but expectantly to what may lie ahead. Today is a fresh start and the first day of the rest of our lives. Even though each morning gives us that opportunity, it shines brighter on the first full weekday of the New Year.