I usually count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10, not 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9.  But then I count 20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29, so I guess for that to work as a group of ten, 10-19 must be ten, and 0-9 must be ten.  OK.  It’s all clear now.

This probably explains why I haven’t felt the urge to do any reflecting on the past year, but rather, am simultaneously excited for what’s about to begin and find my mind wandering across the previous ten years.  That’s a lot of years.

I have to get out paper and pencil right now and work backwards from 2009 to figure out where I was in 2000.  OMG! (that did not exist in 2000).  I was in college in 2000 ~ it really is a lifetime ago.  I didn’t even have an email address or a computer until 2001.

There should be a really smooth segue here regarding email but I am too exhausted to find it and polish it (when I am tired, I type dyslexically, typing the words backwards, and have so many typos to correct without trying for cleverness on top of it!)

So I will just ungracefully state my thankyou.  This year, the messages I’ve received from you (telepathically and otherwise) have impacted me with a significance that will last for the rest of my days.  I’m blown away.

I love being in partnership with Charlie and sharing the light and the dark and the wisdom and the whimsy, and so much blooms off from there ~ with me, just for me, and with you, just for you.  Thankyou for sharing your buds and blooms, thank you for joining me here.