Winter Semester Begins

Well, the first week of school is through, and work so far is still not quite kicking in yet, sometimes it's just not all that easy to let the holidays go. Whether it's the trip to your home, the occasional meeting with your siblings, or the memorable rediscoveries of your past that just needed that occasional click to come back into the forefront of your mind. It was quite a productive winter break, getting to see the Grandfather that you haven't met in three years, or the encounter with a kid in a youth program needing your assistance at learning the basics of Camping 101, or remembering the words in a pledge? All of those form a tough bond, an experience that can be sometimes tempting to forget, but in those few moments, mean so much.
That's often what makes the holiday pretty impressive...the good choices, and the good experiences that come from helping someone else for those moments, or from getting a long hard second, or minutes to think, ponder, and reconsider the worth of what has happened, to just see things for what they really are... in a far better perspective, and realize their worth.
That's where a great experience, and great journal-writing, come in real handy, and that's where that amazing assurance comes that, regardless of the inevitable imperfections or kinks in the stream of holiday events. Something that really strikes the heart as being good, meaningful, and even great.