Change Is Hard

…but change is certain.

Another year flies by

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Somehow we’re headed toward the new year already. Day after tomorrow will be the first day of 2024, and nothing I can do will stop it.

Time is moving so quickly, it’s all a blur.

It hasn’t been easy, 2023, and part of me is happy enough to see it go. But it’s all moving so fast I wonder, if in a week or so, I’ll be welcoming 2025. 

We all need to spend more time sitting still and listening.

It seems I blink and whole months have evaporated. I’m almost afraid to blink again.

Here’s hoping 2024, an election year in the US, encourages us to work together rather than against each other, helps us find new ways to connect with each other, and highlights the good inside so many of us.

Santa has headed back to the North Pole, now it’s on each of us to find our own joy.

I am hoping. But maybe I should just blink us into 2025.

We can hope.

Happy New Year everyone. I’ll see you in 2024. 

Author: dawnkinster

I'm a long time banker having worked in banks since the age of 17. I took a break when I turned 50 and went back to school. I graduated right when the economy took a turn for the worst and after a year of library work found myself unemployed. I was lucky that my previous bank employer wanted me back. So here I am again, a long time banker. Change is hard.

34 thoughts on “Another year flies by”

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  1. lois
    December 30, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    Happy New Year, Dawn. See you next year.

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  2. NAK and The Residents of The Khottage
    December 30, 2023 at 8:15 pm

    EXACTLY! I’ve made the same comments about which year is the new year – those that I’ve chatted with about this all echo the same how is this happening –

    So, Happy 2024 – oh wait 2025 – hold again Happy 2026!

    H&K&W,
    Willow and Phyll
    PeeEssWoo: Hi Penny!

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  3. Linda Schaub
    December 30, 2023 at 8:20 pm

    Happy New Year Dawn – hope it will be better for you. I’ve never been to see Rochester’s Big, Bright Light Show – you have some nice shots of it here. P.S. – Happy New Year to Penny too!

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    • dawnkinster
      December 30, 2023 at 8:24 pm

      The lights are up through the end of next week, I think! You should go!

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      • Linda Schaub
        December 30, 2023 at 9:06 pm

        I didn’t know that – I just assumed they came down at Christmastime – they looked amazing! I don’t like driving on the expressway – not only for all the freeway shootings, but I was in the car with a friend and she was driving and a huge truck decided to cut in front of us, rather than merge and we turned sideways, but didn’t flip – I was a passenger. Ever since then, I will do expressways, but not ones that are fast like 696. I’m hoping I find someone else who would like to go someday.

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        • dawnkinster
          December 30, 2023 at 9:44 pm

          That sounds really scary! I don’t like driving at night, not thrilled with freeways either. I understand!

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        • Linda Schaub
          December 31, 2023 at 12:42 pm

          Yes Dawn, that episode just did me in for expressway driving going forward, although my grandmother lived in Toronto and my mom and I made at least six trips a year to visit her. It was a 240-mile trip one way, mostly on the 401 Highway which was not that busy, but once we got to the Toronto area, the last 25 or so miles was three different expressways – I’d be a nervous wreck by the time we got there. Mom didn’t drive, but she’d jot down when to get over to go onto another expressway but there was always construction, so it was different each time. My grandmother passed away in 1986 and I’ve only been back there once since her funeral in 1990.

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  4. Linda Allen
    December 30, 2023 at 8:22 pm

    If you can just blink like Jeannie from “I Dream of Jeannie” to skip a year, maybe you should use those super powers to make the peace on earth happen. Thanks for trying!

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  5. trentpmcd
    December 30, 2023 at 8:59 pm

    I am not looking forward to the political season in 2024! Maybe blinking into 2025 would be best (as long as I still get to vote 😉 ). Have a Happy New Year!

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  6. Mike
    December 30, 2023 at 8:59 pm

    Happy New Year Dawn! Wishing you the best in 2024.

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  7. 100 Country Trek
    December 30, 2023 at 9:54 pm

    These are an amazing lights . Happy New Year Anita

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  8. sara
    December 31, 2023 at 6:04 am

    I’m happy to see 2023 go as well.

    I will be ignoring all politics and the national news this year, otherwise I will spend the entire year angry! I’ve realized all I can really do to change things is vote, donate to good causes, volunteer my time and be nice to people.

    Wishing you a healthy and fulfilling 2024. May the good parts go slow and the bad parts speed by.

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  9. Dakota/Caren/Cody
    December 31, 2023 at 1:43 pm

    BEAUTIFUL POST!!! Will contact you via messenger early 2024! We need to exchange numbers to pick date for our “kids!” HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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  10. Carol
    December 31, 2023 at 2:33 pm

    I’ve noticed that all of a sudden the babies of friends are no longer babies, but huge people with boyfriends or girlfriends – how the heck did that happen? How is it that these pants I’m wearing are 5 years old? Didn’t I just buy that last winter? As to the election – I have been avoiding politics for most of this year because I do not want to spend my elder years angry. So we have to hope – because otherwise it would be too sad.

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    • dawnkinster
      December 31, 2023 at 2:43 pm

      Yes, time is moving too fast. We’re buying a new sofa and I’m feeling like the sofa we have is only a couple years old (it’s just too small for Bruce). But I see it in photos of 7 and 10 years ago, so I guess it’s not such a youngster after all.

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  11. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com
    December 31, 2023 at 3:32 pm

    I love your night photos – you captured the lights and blurs very well. The photo of the coffee shop is so fitting for the sentiments to pause and sit still and listen to each other.
    I hope your 2024 blesses you with peace and the kind of anticipation Penny has when looking for the good things ahead. 🙏🏻🥳🤗

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  12. DailyMusings
    December 31, 2023 at 5:08 pm

    Happy New Year Dawn! Yes, it goes in a blink I agree. Wishing you a good year ❤

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  13. annhay1
    December 31, 2023 at 10:36 pm

    I’m still wondering how we got to the year 2000! Gads.

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  14. Dale
    January 1, 2024 at 9:59 pm

    Time is very much like a toilet paper roll. The closer we get to the end, the faster it seems to spin!
    However, let us take the joy that each one gives us and if it’s not evident, to go seeking it. Wish you and yours a wonderful 2024 with many opportunities to enjoy the night skies! xo

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  15. SHL2
    January 3, 2024 at 1:30 pm

    Happy New Year Dawn. I feel like time has sped up the last few years we start a new year then its over with before we know it.

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  16. Natalie
    January 4, 2024 at 9:32 pm

    Happy New Year, Dawn. Wishing you a wonderful 2024 with many joyful moments with Penny and nature.

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