A4 • January 2015
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In November, Deer Valley Elementary School held a fashion show to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The students modeled their own clothes featuring the color pink. The school also had a “Survivor Walk” honoring breast cancer survivors. Photo courtesy of Amanda Knerr.
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Editor’s Note By Rebecca Walden As clichéd as the New Even on the days when Year’s resolution has become, I discover the forgotten, I still like the tradition. once fresh ingredients I like the clean slate, in my vegetable crisper, unblemished by the behavthe ones for that wholeiors we’ve earnestly tried to some, unprocessed meal leave in the year we just bid I was going to make from farewell. that cool recipe I found Funny thing, though. Darn online? Yeah, even when if it isn’t even February before I find that they’ve long I’ve managed to mar up that since surpassed their clean slate something awful. expiration date, and we Walden Mercifully, my thirties instead gather around the have taught me to embrace the essence table for our usual delicious, if not espeof daily do overs. Even a badly botched cially lean or original meal. resolution attempt can be made right by Even then, all resolution-related hope another sunrise. is not lost. Say, for example, if I let a colorful rant The very idea of perpetually improvpart my lips amidst horrid traffic, even ing, the notion of admitting I am a work after promising to stick with G-rated in progress, and that I always will be, frustrated phrase substitutes like “That of setting what is hopefully a realistic, jack wagon!” attainable goal, and trying my level best Or if I keep auto-drafting monthly to pursue it, that’s what buoys me against membership fees to Lifetime Fitness, the inevitable blows that are also a part while the accompanying membership of each new year. card sits untouched, judging my lazy, For me, 2015 is no different. The well-intentioned self with contempt from window dressing may differ slightly its sleeve holder in my wallet. (driving patience, regular workouts
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and less processed meals are perennial faves), but the end game will remain the same: I want to be better, to feel better, to do better. Specifically, in 2015 I resolve to: }} Always replace the toilet paper roll (better wife!) }} RSVP each time it is requested (better friend!) }} Wake up when my alarm clock dings the first time (better mom! But seriously y’all, 5:45 a.m.? The struggle is real.) Add to it no longer printing out coupons I know I’ll never use, and putting the empty Capri Sun boxes in the outdoor recycling bin and not the kitchen trash out of sheer convenience, and 2015 can bring it. Do overs, here we go. Happy New Year!
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