Goals, Not Resolutions
Goals, Not Resolutions New Year's Eve and New Year's Day used to be some of my favorite days of the year. New Year's Eve would be spent with family and friends, and lots of food. Each year we would have so many different snack foods. New Year's Day would be filled with Pork, sauerkraut, dumplings, and mashed potatoes. It was a time of reflection and resolutions. But all that changed January 1st of 2025. I was entering my first new year without my wife, and my soul felt crushed. A deep, dark, looming cloud of depression hung over my head. I felt so defeated. Grief had exhausted me, it torn my heart into so many small pieces. It was a different New Years. The new year typically had a way of arriving with noise. There would be fireworks, noise makers, and for those of us in Pennsylvania people would shot a random shot into the air at midnight. You would hear words like “New year, new y...