NYE - No Resolutions - Just Wisdom, Please

Yesterday I was in a small panic due to procrastination, then I realized I was not to be back at school until Wednesday.  Procrastination extended and granted.  I did manage to figure out what I will be doing with my high school students the rest of the week - much to their false hopes that I would not be productive. Although I have a plan, I have yet to grade those papers - that will be tomorrow.  I will not be partying in the New Year - as it is plain to see since I am on the computer - so I will be able to work throughout the day tomorrow if necessary.

NYE always has lots of well-wishing and statements of how so-and-so WILL do better or WILL NOT be doing something or other that is leading their lives to nothing productive.  I see it every year, yet about 10 days to a month, people are giving up, and waiting for the next "starting" point - Monday, on the first of the month, during this next break in work, etc.  I choose not to do that.

This year I choose to take a few risks (not many and nothing that would not be found on the 11 o'clock news) and get out of the house or showing any God-given talents I have to be to the joy or delight of our Lord.  Everything else is just bonus.  Keeping my eye on the cross rather than my own short-comings or valleys of life is the decision I choose for this NYE.  It will have no visual measures, but could very well be immeasurable.


Just because I am such a geek for tree photos, I had to put this picture up.  I year ago I found out I enjoyed driving with no purpose other than to lose myself and find new areas to photograph.  This one brought me to the Keystone Heights area.