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This issue marks the beginning of a new year—welcome 2021. It feels surreal to think we finally made it through the unique challenges of 2020, through a year filled with so much loss and seemingly never-ending hardship. Today, though, we look together to a better future. January is usually a time for resolutions, for promising yourself to stick with a new habit or maybe break an old one, but this year, it is enough just to feel grateful to have a fresh start. 2020 was hard on all of us; New Year’s resolutions can be great, but I encourage you instead to just be kind to yourself this season. We all struggled in different ways last year, and we all deserve peace and recognition for that. Many of us may not have all been on the front lines, but we all made sacrifices.
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This January, the new beginnings of a fresh year, let us allow ourselves to seek inspiration and joy in simple things. Whether that is a sweet smile of child, a deep breath of fresh air on a cold winter morning, drinking coffee, or curling up to read a good book, may these moments fill your senses with delight and help to find calmness all around you. I hope 2021 is good to you; it is certainly well deserved. May the new year bless you with hope, love, happiness, and good health. Please enjoy this issue. Publisher: Rachel Donington, 609-462-6786
Like Rachel, I wish all of you good things in 2021. I share with you in this issue a book review of a very sweet story called The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy, a gorgeously illustrated tale about friendship, love, hope, kindness, and gratitude. The horse in the story tells the boy, “When the dark clouds come, keep going...The storm will pass.” The dark clouds came for all of us last year, but the storm has passed. We have made it; and for that, I am grateful. I hope this year treats you all well. Content Coordinator: Catherine Bialkowski
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