A New Year is Coming

 

eating gift wrap

Christmas has come and gone. Did you survive?

he was the best present under my tree on Christmas morning

Did you get exactly what you wanted? And did it make you jump for joy?

I'm not a resolution making sort of girl. I'm trying all year long to get on track and stay there. I do find the beginning of a new year is a time for personal inventory taking. But I will not set up a list of goals and tasks for myself. I'll continue to evaluate and keep on track. Luckily I know myself well enough to have a grasp on my shortcomings and weak spots without having to do any deep soul searching. The same flaws and goals I have now are the ones I will always be working through. That's life. I will try to be more organized, more patient (ugh), to eat more wisely by buying locally grown produce and continually add more fresh vegetables and seafood into our diets, to step up the exercise, to daily help others in whatever capacity i am able. 

do you have a list of resolutions, goals or dreams that you will work through as the year turns new? do you make a list and strive for them throughout the year?

what about traditions? do you have new year's day traditions? we always have greens and black eyed peas on new year's day. greens symbolize folding money and the peas are for the coins. they are consumed to insure prosperity in the coming year. and served with ham and cornbread it is a nod to my Southern heritage which is the root of all my heartfelt traditions.

what will you do? party hat and up until midnight? champagne and noisemakers? quiet dancing? painting? snow covered day dreams? what will you do?

The Swan by Mary Oliver

Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music - like the rain pelting the trees - like a waterfall
Knifing down the black ledges?
And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds -
A white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet
Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?
And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?

Comments

[martha brown]

That is a fantastic picture of you, Kelly! (and your puppy too). I don't make resolutions, or really do anything for New Years. I'm choosing a new word for the year though. 2009 was "meander"; 2010 will be "remarkable". Have a remarkable year !!!!

[pilar]

Faelan looks like such a big boy in the first picture. My, how he has grown! You are making me hungry for some black eye peas and greens. I rather have that than our traditional menudo and torts.

Have a very Happy New Years, my friend!
xoxoxoxoxo

[pamq]

My goodness, that pup has big feet!!!

And growing like a weed!

I gave up on resolutions a few years back. Like you, it seems that I am forever working on the same flaws and "problems"...

Maybe someday I will have some answers.

I plan to stay home for New Years. Have my annual "Chip and Dip Festival" which amounts to part of a bag of chips, some dip, and then I feel yucky. But I always look forward to it none the less. Perhaps I shall be really wild this year and drink a can of Coke.

Oh my.

Happy 2010!!!