New Year’s Day. We went out for Chinese and this is the fortune I got. I can’t think of anything more fitting. Accepting What Is was a big theme for 2009. The other big theme was Reclamation. I reclaimed my artistic self. My passion for art and music came back strong. I even made peace with some key people from my past where mending was needed. Very amazing.
For 2010 I will state my intentions, but will allow the flow of life to take me where it will. One of my favorite books (Deep Survival) teaches that in order to survive you must have a plan, but be willing to deviate from the plan at any moment when things start to go awry (which they undoubtedly will). I agree! So here are my intentions:
- build meaningful relationships with the current people in my life and any new ones that arrive this year
- finish the novel
- launch new project (still under top secret status for now)
- launch educational DVD (almost done!)
- produce one music video
-reinvent the dying art of the dinner party
I considered putting “find someone else to do my housework”, but decided otherwise because… this one falls under “wishful fantasizing”, not a true intention.
I love this perspective! I’ve always found it difficult to make plans knowing that life is bound to throw me in an unexpected direction. Intentions are good. I can do intentions.
Keep me posted on how the dinner party thing goes. I have been meaning for a year and a half to invite all of my connecting neighbors over for dinner, or even just a little “happy hour” after work. So far, nothing. I think we all crave more interaction, but we’re always waiting for someone else to make the first step. I know I’d rather let someone else do the organizing, but it looks like that’s not going to happen.
Your fortune is great, too. Sometimes I love fortune cookie advice. I’m sure that would be true for anyone at any time. Maybe the housework thing is relatable to your fortune. Accept the inevitable existence of housework and you will feel better?
Reading this makes me think I should reconsider my rule of no New Year’s resolutions. I have such a hard time keeping them with a husband almost always gone and four kids that rule my life and time. I do like the way you stated your intentions for the new year, a much better way of putting it. I would also like to know how the dinner party thing turns out, after we move to El Paso and I have NO friends close by, I may have to start making some new friends that way. All my love back at ya babe!