Change

I love a new year.
I love the idea that things will be different from one year to the next.
They always are in some way.
Sometimes in big ways and sometimes in small ways.

Dark nights turn into brilliantly lit mornings
and long days settle into deep and vibrant sunsets.
Caterpillars become butterflies
and old leaves fall and new buds grow.

Perhaps the most exciting change is what happens inside of us.
People really can and do change.
I've seen it in others and I've felt it in myself.
People change and grow and learn
and live and love
more.

More than ever before if they choose.
Which is really the sum of my new year's resolutions.
To live and love more deeply
than I did this past year.

To keep changing for the better.
To welcome the changes that come.
Because they will and they do.

Here's to change.