Backwards and Forwards

I’m re-posting this note Doug put up on his Facebook page. No time to pull together the photos he included, so here are a few from our New Year’s Eve 2009. Happy 2010, everyone! — Darienne

Like many, I am getting reflective as the aughts draw to a close. Because so many of our shared experiences have been bad over these past 10 years, I feel the general reaction will be “good riddance” to the decades passing. And I understand that, with 9/11, two wars, the dot com and real estate busts, Katrina, red states vs. blue states, etc. But I did want to acknowledge for me personally, it was in many ways a terrific decade.

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