Tonight I sit in my quiet little office alone except for Schuyler sleeping in the room next store and my two faithful dachshunds on patrol downstairs. I hear the faint swoosh of the cars passing by on the road outside. I smile thinking of the duck families nestled in bunches around the pond.

It is the end of a rich and emotion filled week — or should I say couple of weeks. Our lives continue to navigate the waters of a tumultuous sea — and yet in the froth of the waves, we find glory. Were there not waves big enough to swallow us whole, there would be no waves worthy of really surfing upon.

A year and a half has passed but we are still in the early part of this marathon. Our lives are not destined to be a two hour movie, it appears. And yet, a life worthy of being lived to the fullest isn’t about quick fixes and instant gratification, is it? Although that would perhaps be the more pleasant path superficially…

Sometimes we quest for answers. Sometimes we quest for ease. Sometimes we don’t really know what we are questing for or even if we are truly questing… and out of those moments, something beautiful and magical almost certainly always comes…

May this be the moment when that beauty finds you…

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In Joy,

Meridith Hankenson Alexander