fading of the year

i am seeing a lot of year-end summaries on instagram these last few days. usually i love this kind of exercise–taking stock, summing up, celebrating the successes, analyzing the failures, laying down plans for the year to come. i love all of it. but right now i am nursing a cold that has my head feeling a bit like this dried peony. so, it will have to wait a week. instead i am reading shonda rhimes new book, year of yes, and i am laughing and feeling inspired.  if you haven’t heard about it, i encourage you to check it out. it’s funny, it’s honest, it’s insightful. it’s almost worth having a cold.

dried peony