Tết Time, oh la la it's Spring!

Today is the first day of the Tết festival here in Vietnam, it is a first for us. It's Spring time!

Tết Nguyên Đán, which is Sino-Vietnamese for "Feast of the First Morning of the First Day". Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar, which usually has the date falling in January or February. (Thanks wikipedia)

The great part of this New Year and Spring festival here is that I feel like I missed new year! I feel like I'm behind in all my personal new years traditions- But it's officially a New New Year on January 28th!

And with Tet is full swing here, and a New New Year for me, and Spring in the air, I wanted to share this New Year wish with you...

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M.

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Sun's Up, MUGS UP!

And the first order of business today is coffee... isn't it always? We've got company visiting for the first time here in Vietnam, and it is awesome, so much do to, so much I haven't done- and someone to do it with. But as always, first order of business is a big mug full of Kicking Horse Coffee... Thank goodness for family and friends who understand just how much I love the stuff- and for sending it to me, despite the cost - not sure I can every say thank you enough, so this one's for you...
Sun's Up, MUGS UP! at ease...


Cheerio to an awesome day, starting the right way :)
What's in your mug?
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M.

(Ps. I don't get paid to share Kicking Horse with you, it's just my absolute favourite!)

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Despite the Forecast

This is a lesson for me.  Despite the forecast, live like it's SPRING.

How many of us are starting the new year out on a new foot, or wishing it was a new foot, a new forecast, a new outlook? How many of us have gotten news that we were not expecting? How many of us have parents, siblings, children, loved ones, dealing with a forecast that is heart breaking? How many of us have stuff in our past the makes our future look bleak? How many of us are tired of starting over again... and are just about to let it all go? How many of us feel hopeless?

The forecast we have for children, looks bleak, a chance of thunderclouds, but most likely just a lot of fog, and freezing rain... not what you want to go out and dance barefoot in. But despite the forecast, despite all the times the pain take my breath away, despite what the future looks like... LIVE likes it's spring. Live like there is hope, believe there is hope. Hope...

Somedays I feel like this is doable, there is hope, there is always hope, when all else fails, there is hope... and I do believe that, because it ain't over 'till the fat lady sings, as they say, or it isn't actually over until they put me in the ground. Which means, I'm breathing, so there is hope... right?

I always quote the first part of this verse from proverbs, "hope deferred makes the heart sick..." and my mother always finishes it "... but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life."

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life...   

Proverbs 13:12 

I believe that if we live in hope, our dreams are fulfilled, and I believe if we live with an open mind,  and an open heart dreams are fulfilled that perhaps we never even knew we had...

Here's to a new year, despite the forecast, live like it's spring, and dare to hope and dream!
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M.

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