Good news...everyone using the Gregorian calendar has an extra day in their life tomorrow. Time is a pretty weird thing to wrap our brains around sometimes, isn’t it? One day of hardship can seem like an eternity and the same 24 hours of happiness can seem like a blink. So, how would you live the day if you really thought of it as an extra special helping of 24 hours of life? Oooooohhh, how about if we extended that to realizing that each moment is a gift...because it really is. When someone we love transcends this life, there is often so much sorrow and yet at the same time we also experience the gift they leave behind for us. They help us to realize how precious our lives are, and to think about whether we are using that gift as wisely as we can. As time goes on, and the daily experience of helping Trudy, Stew’s mom, cope with what’s happened to her continues, we are often feeling fried, impatient, exhausted and our bodies are complaining about the long sitting hours. We are helping each other to remember that, despite how everything feels, there is still life beating its heart within us, that we are in this together, and that, even if what we are experiencing is sometimes heartbreak, when we are willing to be with what is, everyday wholeness is a further precious gift that presents us with its tenderness, strength and joy. So, how am I going to use that extra day tomorrow? I am going to celebrate it with gusto, in celebration. Today is the best day ever...I make it so!