Things are changing around us

We have a new month, a new year and a new decade happening all at the same time, which leaves plenty of room for pondering what the past 3,650 days have left us with.

There have been two royal weddings, royal babies and the end of Harry Potter.

We have seen countless hours of Game of Thrones and watched wildfires rage across California.

For many, the laughter died the day we lost Robin Williams and Steve Jobs left behind an Apple legacy that has laid the groundwork for amazing advances in so many areas.

We watched a football powerhouse brought to its knees with the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the rich and famous toppled during the college admissions scandal.

Who can forget Benghazi, Snowden, Bill Cosby or the phrase Russian Interference?

Locally, we celebrated a total solar eclipse with people from all over the world and saw the opening of new restaurants, new businesses and welcomed new friends and families into our community.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our day to day lives that we forget how fast things are changing all around us. We spend our time running from work to the grocery store to our children’s school events and back home, day after day, often not recognizing how fast our time on earth is passing.

We have traveled around the sun ten times in the last decade and watched it rise and set each day.

As we begin our next trip through the universe, let’s take time to “stop and smell the roses”, take a moment to just breathe and above all, gather our loved ones together as often as we can before another 3,650 days pass us by.