Hello 2011. Goodbye 2010. It was a tough year with unexpected changes and underestimated burdens. I learned that hardships take getting used to. I'm learning that patience is a virtue.

Most of all, I'm finding love in unexpected places and discovering there's so much more of it where I thought it's been exhausted.

Did anything change from what brought me down in 2010 to what's lifting me up in 2011? Nothing. Except in hope.