Time to Sharpen Our Pencils

In my younger days, early September always signified new beginnings as that was when the summer break was over and we would return to school and enter a new grade. 

I can still smell the freshness of the first days of any new school year, new notebooks and sharpened pencils in a brand-new pencil box.  This feeling of a clean slate, especially within the blank pages of a new composition book, always made me think that no matter how badly the past school might have ended (let’s not even talk about it!), I could still be afforded a fresh start. Maybe this would be the year that all of my grades would fall into place or at least the cafeteria food would miraculously become edible.

As we enter Fall of 2022, I think we all should be granted the hope of a better road ahead, a fresh start for strength, respite and support.  While I know that sitting in an emergency waiting room on August 31st feels the same as sitting in that same room 24 hours later, I just feel that if we are ever to believe in a new dawn, this is as good a time as ever to start. 

How about creating a respite plan for yourself and keeping it for as long as possible?  Or what about creating a Reverse Gift List for your family and go ahead and make the calls knowing that this time they will come through?  

Nobody deserves it more than you do. Now, let’s sharpen those pencils.