Looking Forward
I just reread last years End of the Year/New Resolution post. Among other things, I said:
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions as a rule. Setting myself up for failure is something that I try to avoid. I believe that life is about learning and growing, fixing, changing, laughing, and loving…all the time. I try to make it a constant effort and avoid tying it to a specific day.
However, this year, today…not tomorrow…I am going to make a more conscious effort to allow myself to breathe, to live, to accept that I can’t fix this. To stop taking on everyone’s pain as my own. I have enough. It serves no purpose, it really doesn’t relieve them of any of their grief or suffering, it only adds to mine.
And to smile more and mean it!
Yes, Sunny is still on my mind each and every day. I miss her. I think about and send love to her family daily as well, as they still and will always carry the loss of their beautiful daughter. There are days that it catches up with me more than others, but I do think that I have moved forward in positive ways.
I do smile and laugh more and I definitely mean it!!
So, for 2010, I plan to continue…learning, growing, living, laughing, being silly, loving and healing. And I want to make more art.
Starr and Sunny, being silly, Summer 2005
mp3: “Raindrops” – Grand Hallway
“Oh the sound of life, oh the sound of love”
“Oh the sound of change, oh the sound of starting”
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Grand Hallway – Raindrops (w/ Seattle Rock Orchestra and Perkins School Children’s Choir)
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–the New Year’s Eve Edition–
Always love a Sunny and Starr picture. It always brings a smile to my face…
Here’s to 2010! It’s going to be a great year. I can feel it in my bones…
I love Sunny and Starr pictures too! Thanks!!
Thanks for stopping by tonight! Here’s to a year of many more laughs and smiles!
Hugs!
: ) Absolutely!! Thanks!
I hope that you do create more in the new year. I would love to see your expressions.
If you vow to laugh more and put those good vibes out there, I do believe it will help us all.
Happy VGNO! Happy, Happy New Year Kelly!
.-= Ann Again´s last blog ..Virtual Girls Night Out – Happy New Year! =-.
Thanks, Ann! I will be sharing…as an incentive to DO!!
I love your spirit for 2010! It’s going to be a great year filled with everything you said, smiles, silliness, laughs, happiness, and all kinds of fun artsy creations!
Happy New Year!!!
.-= blueviolet´s last blog ..Nothing Like A Sucker Punch to the Gut =-.
Thank you! I hope so…no…I know so!!
(((Hugs)))
.-= Yaya´s last blog ..2010=HOPE =-.
Thank you! Hugs back at you!!