Here we are. You and I. Computer screen + me. I didn't think we would do this again, make a blog together. Honestly, I have missed you . . . I have missed us. It's New Year's Eve and I have been thinking a lot about what has happened in my life this year, but I don't want to really go into any of that. Not right now. Maybe not ever. What I really want to do this very moment is add fuel to the tiny little embers that are delicately burning in my being. I long to create . . . to share . . . to connect . . . We can do this again. The fact that I am sitting here with you typing words across your face is testament that I will move into the year 2017 running. I have to. I need to. No more excuses. No more wishing. I keep hearing these words repeat themselves over and over in my mind . . .
. . . be the change . . .
And of course, a great drama would not be the same without a line from Shakespeare.
This above all: to thine own self be true . . .
I do not want to become a cliché, despite the fact that I do have a soft spot for overused quotes. I want to be an example. My daughter is my greatest audience. What lessons can I teach her just by speaking? Perhaps some words will stick, but it's what I do that will have a lasting impression on her young mind. Live authentically. Love unconditionally. These are the lessons I want her to learn. These are lessons to which I am still a student of. But we will learn them together, she and I. And perhaps by doing so, we will add a bit of whimsy and beauty back into the world. That is my hope and my prayer.
My booklist going into 2017:
- Love Does, by Bob Goff
- Drawn: The Art of Ascent, by Jeremy Collins
- Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, by Edward Abbey
- The 52 Lists Project: A Year of Weekly Journaling Inspiration, by Moorea Seal
- a leather bound journal for poems I wish to write
I may not know exactly where I'm headed,
but I can tell you that as long as I keep moving
one foot forward in front of the other,
I'm going somewhere.
I know the journey will see me through some rough roads,
but I'm not afraid because I am always rewarded
with scenery that will take my breath away.
I will forge friendships with amazing characters
because we were never meant to walk alone.
This is the story I choose to live . . .
the one where the girl followed her heart
and in doing so wrote one amazing tale!
-k.
