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I must tell you that I scratched off the original blog material I was writing since January to publish in February, when on a Wednesday, my daughter came home from school, gleaming: “Daddy, I have something for you!”

And she pulled out from her backpack The Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean.

A new year and a fresh slate. That familiar time of year when anything feels possible. The
goals are being created and action plans put into place…cautiously of course. No need to
make the goals too ambitious in fear of disappointment or failure. Holding back just a bit, in
case something doesn’t go as planned.

The probability of you being born, the odds of you even existing here on Earth are estimated to be about one in 400 trillion. Yet, here you are.

In Chinese Medicine the season of Winter is associated with our Kidneys. Winter teaches us the art of “resting and reflecting.” In nature it is an ideal time for animals to hibernate, for us it is a wonderful time for conserving and rebuilding Energy or Qi (chee).

Merriam-Webster has added the term “Dumpster Fire” to the dictionary, calling it the phrase of our time. The informal noun is defined as “an utterly calamitous or mismanaged situation or
occurrence, a disaster.”

How many times have…