Welcome to the very new year, can’t get much newer.  Here we are on the threshold of a new space, a blank canvas ahead of us.  What are we going to do with that?

On the coffee table sitting next to me is the Spanish Table, a cook and wine pairing book, a birthday gift.  Our dear friend Michelle from down the road just gave it to me for my seventieth.  I like the title and maybe that is close to the mission statement for the new year..

That’s a lot of what we do here, re-enacting the Spanish Table.  We walk and converse and then we sit around that table to rest and celebrate our time together.  It’s a communion of souls meeting for a time to re-enact, to remember, to reinforce our memories of a special time, of a special community.

We don’t need a lot and we don’t ask a lot.  It’s all a simple thing really.   It just requires an uncluttered space to unfold.  Maybe that is what we should look for in our upcoming year, an uncluttered space.  It will be a place where we can unfold together and share in what we have know and have learned.

Thanks for being here, so far so good, love, Felipe.