While I can’t look back at 2022 and say it was a bad year, or any more difficult than most of those in the recent past, it was a year Fraught. Lots of little things, and a few bigger, and even Big things, made it a difficult period to navigate.
Business was bumpy. Spring Break in West Texas brought hopes of at least a satisfactory year, then political upheaval and soaring gas prices dashed those. While we loved the rain that once more graced our fair desert land, weather and all its fickle Timing left us soggy too often, or cold, or windy, just when we should have been busier. This is a capricious land, and it has outdone itself at times in both 2021 and 2022.
It has been harder than I expected to get a handle on just what Somewhere Over the Rainbow wants to Be, and what I want to become along with it. I feel as though I have gotten so caught up in just making ends meet sometimes, that I, or we, too often loose sight of the ideals we began this business with.
However, this is not Doom and Gloom. Only some healthy and needed re-evaluation of goals, of principles and of where Heart lays in all of this. I am still not sure of just what changes the New Year, 2023 if you can believe it, will bring, but I know that it will bring change, and I look forward to that. While some people regard change with dismay or caution, I see it as the Healthy Alternative to stagnation and standing still. While I may not always welcome it as the venerated guest it should be, I fully understand its importance to life.