This will be my last blog for 2012. Each year at this time I take a little time off to be with family and friends and to make the holidays as festive as possible. In other words, I try to achieve work-life balance and take some of my own advice. So far, it is working out pretty well.
The holiday cards get written and mailed, the presents are purchased, wrapped and taken to the post office, the cookies get baked, and my mother’s recipe for cranberry nut bread never fails. The tree gets up, the decorations get hung, the ornaments are placed perfectly and strategically among the strings of gold beads, the presents are artistically displayed beneath the lowest boughs, and we all oooh and aaah in unison at the result. The holiday drinks are more festive each year, the to-die-for pumpkin/honey/bourbon pie makes it to the table, and the nut buried in someone’s rice pudding brings good luck for the new year. The hymns during the Christmas Eve service are familiar, and Santa miraculously makes it down the chimney each year.
These are the traditions that create memories, and I am sure that you all have them. Cherish them and the people who created those memories for you, and pass them on. Family traditions are the things that ground you and create the strong sense of self that can take you through better or worse. Hold to them, and remember to be safe and make each and every moment special and lasting.
I wish you all a wonderful Holiday Season and many blessings for the New Year. I appreciate your support for Best Friends at the Bar, and I hope that more of you will check in with me from time to time and let me know how I can make the project even more relevant to you. We have some exciting things planned for the new year, and I know you will want to be a part of it.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Wonderful Boxing Day and Joyous Kwanzaa.
See you in 2013!
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