Hey Kids,

“We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” –Winston Churchill. December 1941

I heard this quote today and it hit home.

Given by the ever statesman Winston Churchill to the Canadian Parliament shortly following the events that made assured that Canada as well as the US would be playing a part in the expanding world conflict. He shared these words to give them the hope and the assurance that we, as the collective good guys, had the metal to face the oncoming challenges.

Moving forward, it’s sometimes easy to think of yourself as unable to withstand the pressures of today. Life is not easy, yet we’ve all had to face and overcome challenges, weather failures and disappointments, and continue on from our victories; they all give us the foundation that will support us tomorrow.

We are what our past had made us. That isn’t a bad thing.

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Hey Kids,

2016 didn’t bring me an endless surplus of riches, but I did OK. I worked a second job the entire year. It did afford us some fun things and the ability to help a few of the kids.

Of course the job kept me from some other things. This blog especially. I can’t entirely lay all blame on the increased job hours on my neglect of my daily posts, but it provided me with enough reason to let it go.

It also allowed me to forget where my attention may have been better served.

I am a writer. But along with my daily blog went my daily writing, editing, and publishing. I was a writer that no longer wrote.

Steven Pressfield would call it surrendering to Resistance.

I had lost. Or more precisely, I’ve been losing.

I’m done losing.

I quit the job and I’m writing again.

I’m a writer.

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