hope....dream....create

one more year has passed... it gets harder and harder to believe each year... and the older i get, the quicker the years go by and the less i seem to get done...

i am not one to make resolutions on new year's eve... i learned that in my youth. it's a disappointment to have such high hopes at the beginning of the year and to be horrified weeks later that, yes, once again, i gave in to my 'old self'...

i prefer to spend time thinking of what i hope to do this year, where i would like to visit, hoping for new friends to enter my life, hoping for health and for the energy of a 20 something... hope that my family doesn't run away and will still eat my burnt food.... hope that i will do well at creating and living... and that i will teach somebody something that is vital to their future... yes, it is a lot of hopes...

i dream of an organized life (i know, that's sad), but it means so much to me... if my nest is in order than i can create, if my home is in order i can sit at the table and play board games, order opens my life to new ideas, friendships and things that i enjoy to do.... and if awards were given for chaos and confusion, time spent looking for something, that i would win.

i hope to create more, whether it's wonderful dinner for my family and friends, new art, new ideas for my nest...to work on my poetry and photography that takes me away into a whole other area of design...start needle pointing a pillow and collage...

those are the things that i think about....that i will move towards.... my whisper to myself is family comes first..... when i'm off into one of my little worlds i breathe that message to myself, they are what is most important to me... and in the end of the journey, that is what i will look back on....

i hope that your dreams come true and that you create a wonderful year for you and yours.... and that you have peace...