December leaves

Life feels busy, and yet I want it to be simple and stark like this picture.

I'm not feeling Christmas-y at all. Mostly because the workload is so great I don't have time to think about the little details of Christmas. Instead my to-do list topples over in my brain. By the end of each day, exhaustion is the reward, yet sleep is hard to find.

Tonight was a real milestone as my colleague and I wrapped a rather tedious long-term project. Neither of us was really happy with it. Neither of us likes to represent our work as anything less than 100%. Yet in this case we both finally decided what we had to give would have to be good enough, just to close the books on the most stressful semester yet.

So, one thing crossed off the list.

I want the peace of the above photo, and it will come, soon enough.



There are a few things on the horizon that glitter like ice on top of snow....