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Backward Glancing and Navel Gazing

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Palomar Mountains in the distance

We better get busy. In just a couple of days we’ll be needing to put an extra 2 on our keyboards. Instead of being 2011, suddenly it will be 2012.

I, like everyone else has spent some time looking back at 2011. I even wrote a rather lengthly piece about all the highlights and low lights of 2011.  I covered my cancer operation,  our daughter’s wedding and finally Marilyn’s loss of her mother. I put all the proper links in there so you too could look back and had oodle’s of nice pictures. In my mind at least, it was a true work of art.
I saved it for a bit, but in the interim read a few other people’s Year in Review, and then I went back and trashed it.

That was then, this is now. We all had some sad days in 2011 and we all had some great days. It’s called life and we all get to live it. Any way we want.

So, now that I’ve quit looking back, I can look ahead. I can even start working on my New Years Resolutions.

Let’s see: Lose some weight, get more exercise, become president of the world…….What did I miss? I’ll just take last years list and change the font. Same as I did for 2010.

Thanks for the read. If I don’t see you before, Happy New Year

 

We Do Church

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When we travel through Mexico we often check out the local church. They are usually amazing pieces of architecture. By those standards this one is extemely small, very basic. But that’s not why we are here. Tonite we are in the little Catholic church on the Isla to celebrate Christmas eve.

Christmas is a huge deal here, so the church fills very quickly. We move outside to the courtyard so the regulars can take their seats. Mar and I are sitting in chairs, watching the show when the kids notice my camera. Kids being kids, they gotta clown around a bit.

Yes, that’s Bob in the middle. I guess we are all just kids when we get the chance.

The service is over and we are driving slowly through the streets on our way home;  lots of people come out of their homes, shake our hands and wish us Feliz Navidad. We should have been walking. Can you imagine the parties we would have been invited to then?