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Resolution Definition: From Google A firm decision to do or not to do something A formal expression of opinion or intention agreed on by a legislative body, committee, or other formal meeting, typically after taking a vote   The quality of being determined or resolute The action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter The passing of a discord into a concord during the course of changing harmony The disappearance of inflammation, or of any other symptom or condition The process of reducing or separating something into its components The replacing of a single force or other vector quantity by two or more jointly equivalent to it The conversion of something abstract into another form The substitution of two short syllables for one long one The smallest interval measurable by a scientific (esp. optical) instrument; the resolving power The degree of detail visible in a photographic or television image I've never looked at the definition of the word

So. I had a thought this morning. A big one actually. The thought led to the question, "Am I recognizable?" To God To Fellow Believers To Strangers To Myself Let me tell you a very short story: I was driving to work this morning, in a bit of a hurry. I was running really late. I mean, after 8 days off for Christmas vacation (a post and pictures will be posted soon), it takes a couple of days to get back into the swing of things.  To get to my office, I have to turn down a dirt road and about 1/10th of a mile, come to a guard shack with a gate that is only opened with my ID badge, or the nice guards press a button and the gate opens so that I never even have to stop. :) I barely made the turn down the road and the gate began to open. The guard, B.F., recognized my car and as I drove past, he smiled and waved 'Good Morning' to me.  And at that moment ladies and gentlemen, I asked the question, "Am I recognizable?" Not

My favorite time of the year! I don't like being out in the cold, but I sure enjoy it being cold, so that we can turn the heat on, wear warm, fuzzy pajamas and socks, make hot cocoa, chili and cornbread, bake cookies, snuggle under blankets, decorate the house, give gifts to family and friends (and even strangers), think back on memories from Christmases past, and really truly remind ourselves of the TRUE meaning of Christmas! (I posted about my thoughts on that back in November.) As much joy as this season brings to me, sometimes I get a little down. Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary of my step-mom's death. Marla Hornsby. She became a good friend to me during her 5 or so year marriage to my dad before she passed. I was thinking of her, remembering times that we shared together, things that she said to me, her smile, her laughter, how she loved to dance with my Aspen...how she was the first person to make Aspen have a long, heavy fit of laughter when she was just mo