2015 continued the trend of a few years now, bringing many changes and challenges on the personal and professional planes. Status quo is but a distant memory.
les collines continues to grow and expand. We are now legal beyond New York state lines, with stores carrying our jars numbering nearly two dozen– from the Hudson Valley, Berkshires and Litchfield hills down to Brooklyn. A bitter Seville marmalade, two varieties of plum jelly, wild grape jelly and quince jelly joined our flavor lineup this year. Instagram is the latest addition to our social media arsenal, delicious and somehow satisfying in its sweet eye candy potential.
Otherwise– what the universe delivers in personal challenges can only be tremendous opportunities for growth, no? Ball busting exercises that leave one either exponentially stronger, or pretty much flattened. At least we’re all clear on the stakes.
With thanks for the love and hands ups of friends and strangers, in all domains. Those who offered support, and love, from a distance or up close and personal, it all goes in the mix that is my heart.
So: we’ll drink a cup of kindness yet, for friends past and present, near and far, for auld lang syne xo