2020 Rearview Mirror
As I sit here thinking back on 2020 during the last few hours of the year, there are lots of things that come to mind. Clearly this has been an unusual year to say the least with lots of uncertainties and huge national and world changes. A lot of things seem to be a holding pattern pending control of COVID and a return to normalcy. Yet when I look back I see a lot of growth and positives things coming out of this year. Challenges have a way of forcing us to grow and change our way of thinking. We added Piper to our family in May. I had been telling Jaelyn for a couple of years that we weren’t getting another dog and if/when we did, I wanted one that didn’t shed as much as Trip and was a fairly quiet low-key dog. But in the midst of quarantine and seeing the effects of this on Jaelyn and myself, those thoughts began to change. When I saw Piper’s picture and information on a rescue site, I scrolled past and kept coming back to her picture. Jaelyn likes to remind me that Piper