As I mentioned before, we here in the EPHFL have experienced an unusually long period of rain and fog — dense fog and heavy, soaking rain. Started around mid-December 2018, and lasted until last Friday (January 4, 2019) when Mr. Sun finally came back — along with the dry, cool air. You don’t know how good that felt.

You have to understand that the EPHFL just doesn’t have long periods of inclement weather. We just don’t. It doesn’t happen.

Just before the weather broke, I had a short window of no rain. This is important because I had a yard of pecan leaves to rake. Those leaves had been sitting in my front yard lying there, taunting me, since the day after Thanksgiving.

Finally, on New Year’s Day, I had a small window of opportunity.

I rake the leaves. I know there must be some vacuum device out there that would allow me to suck all of the pecan leaves off of my lawn and into a big bag — but I don’t have such a device. I have me. Two rakes. And a lawn cart.

So, on January 1st, I raked up what 2018 left behind. I called it “The Leaving of 2018.”

Unlike the past, the future is there waiting to be made. You can change your future, rearrange it — you are not tied to your past. Rake it up and be done with it.

The older I get, the more I realize just how much we (as individuals) are in charge of our future. It’s all about the choices we make. And not just the choice or choices, but the quality of that choice or those choices. Beyond that, you can also change what particular choices are brought before you. How? By voicing it. By thinking it. By putting that desire “out there.”

Make the choice to be future-focused, positive, and “leaf” (sorry) the past behind…