Time is flying so fast that an entire month has passed in a blink. I intended to write a heartfelt good riddance to 2009 but I don't know where the time went. I can't even make any excuses about being terribly busy or having some tragedy to tend to. I mean, I've been sort of busy with moving and school and tests and germs invading my body, but what else is new?

Honestly, though, I'm really quite perplexed at the speed at which time is passing. I was recently notified that my 10 year high school reunion is this year! Obama has already been in office for an entire year, and my mom keeps telling me the end of the world is getting even closer! My head spins in the whirl of it all.

Thankfully, our new little house in the hills provides reprieve from it all. Every morning I watch in awe of the sun always willing to rise. I give thanks for every beam of light that shines into this tiny home and my heart sings along with the birds outside our window. Not too far away, we can still hear the rush of traffic on the Hollywood freeway but here in this house we find stillness.

This stillness is perhaps the reason (and my favorite excuse) for not posting a new year's blog sooner. As "time" has been passing, or doing whatever it is time does, I have been still. Still and grateful.

I hope 2010 finds you in peace and stillness. Forget time and just be.