One year ago today, I wrote my first blog entry here on the site that was to be the home of the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy program. Two hundred twenty-two posts later, here we are, looking forward to 2008; lots of reading, writing, and stitching; and the second annual Bookmark Challenge.

At such a milestone, I think I’m supposed to stop and reflect on the past twelve months, but I’m not in the mood: I’m too excited and busy racing into 2008. If I look back, I’m liable to trip.

Instead, I offer pretty lights with which to celebrate and raise my cup of Chai Nog to anyone who’s ever read a post here, especially those of you who stitched bookmarks this fall.

northern-lights.jpg Northern lights. Cooper Landing, AK. Yes, it’s real. No, there is no filter on the camera or digital manipulation of the image.