another year

The light is streaming in from my windows, I'm listening to Meiko, and feeling completely and utterly content right now.
Happy.
Blessed.
Hopeful.
Loved.
Grateful.
In fact I can't quite wipe the smile off my face. It's a good day.



I've been thinking lately how our experiences build on each other til it brings us to the place we are today, and even today will be one of the layers in our history that we can look back on and draw from. Like an archeologist, I wonder what I will uncover from last year, three years ago, or even ten years ago that will help me find my dreams in the year ahead of me. I hope I have learned to take it one step at a time, that your head creates your world, that happiness is a state of mind, that I will be rejected at times and it's OK, that it doesn't matter what 'they' think, that I am good enough, but when those times come that I've forgotten (and they will come) I'm grateful I have layers of life to remind me.

Thirty-two with all it's ups and downs was a good year. Although I don't know what my thirty-third year will hold I'm looking forward to it's promise...that it will be anything and everything I make it.