Rear View Mirror: 2013 Reflections

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“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror,”

Byrd Baggett once said

But I disagree. We must always look forward.

Yet we learn

By looking back

Reflecting

This was a year of

Reflecting

Connecting

to people

Some I don’t even know

I didn’t know how much I needed them

On Twitter for example

4,796 tweets to 1,525 tweeps

A conversation

about anything

and

everything I needed to know

to read

to learn.

This was a year of new beginnings

taking risks

a new job in a new place

where my passion meets

my profession.

So inspired. So tired.

I love it.

The home I found

when I was not

looking.

This was a year of reading. So many books.

A failed Goodreads goal.

365 books was just too much for this year

Even though I have read

20 books since

November.

107 books so far. Thank you #nerdybookclub

The year is not over.

This was a year of writing.

In notebooks.

Google.

Blogging.

Donalyn Miller said it best, “ The world doesn’t need me to blog. But I do.”

I would not be a writer without the Writing Project.

Or a blogger.

Or a CUE Rockstar.

Or even a principal.

There are the things

I wished I had done

better

more running

a cleaner house

and more patience with my family

But I will do better

this year.

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror,”

Byrd Baggett once said

But I disagree. We must always look forward.

Yet we learn

By looking back

Reflecting.