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Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

We all know the verse.
Row, Row, Row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily; life is but a dream.

What a metaphor for life! Life IS but a dream. Sometimes I wake up and think that life is so short, especially when measured in small increments. Yesterday I woke up and realized that I've only got two months left in NH before I head to Brazil. I can hardly believe it's already been 2 1/2 months. Sometimes we have bad dreams, sometimes we have good dreams. Life is a dream in the sense that we don't always know what will happen next, it does not always seem to make sense, and yet it just keeps going. It ends abruptly for some people, and for others it just tapers off, as in some dreams. So let's keep rowing our boats gently down the stream of life. How? Think about it...you'll figure it out.

As for Christmas...here are some pictures! Tiff and Sky came out for a week, and it was basically the best Christmas ever! Although sprinkled with goodbyes and seeya-laters, it was fantastic nonetheless!









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  1. Patty OgdenDecember 30, 2009 at 12:25 PM

    Nice blog as usual. I love the Row Row metaphor for life part. And the photos are really cute.

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