"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." Edith Lovejoy Pierce.
Don't you just love that analogy? I love blank new books....so much opportunity....a tabula rasa.
I have been reading blogs about New Year's Resolutions....for and against. One person suggested starting a "Possibilities" list, adding everything you might someday want to get or do. Another person suggested making a Fun bucket list for the year. If your resolutions or intentions involve fun, you are more likely to accomplish them. I like both ideas so have started my own "Fun Possibilities" bucket list. I'm sure I will come up with more items later on, but this is what I came up with off the top of my head.
1. Run/walk the 1/2 marathon I am already registered for on 5/20/12.
2. Run/walk the Bolder Boulder 10K on Memorial Day, and make it an
annual tradition.
3. Start taking an annual vacation...maybe Hawaii, someday maybe Alaska,
someday maybe a drive up the West coast of the United States, someday
maybe hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
4. Hike up Mount Bierstadt, a short and supposedly relatively easy 14er.
5. Plan some fitness rewards....after a big accomplishment get that Saucony
jacket I've been wanting to have for next fall, or a runner's GPS watch;
but make sure I really EARN them first.
6. Get a smart phone and move into this century electronically.
We had a quiet New Year's Eve. It was nice to be home. We called family and watched a really good DVD that I highly recommend. It is called "The Music Never Stopped" and is based on a true story by Dr. Oliver Sachs about a man with devastating amnesia. It is about missed opportunities and rebuilding relationships and the music of the 60s. We lived through that era but never really followed the music of The Grateful Dead. After watching the movie, I will have to investigate their music a little more. This is a moving story that will stay with you.
Isn't it amazing how music affects us...our memories, our emotions. Music has been described as poetry, prayer, medicine, the universal language of mankind, and life.
We plan on going hiking with a neighbor family today up in the foothills. It will be a perfect way to start the new year.
(P.S., the hike with the neighbors fell through, dangerously icy up there thanks to yesterday's extreme winds. We will have to take a local walk on our own, still not a bad way to start the new year.)
"You are the music while the music lasts." T.S. Eliot
"A peaceful place, so it looks from space, A close look reveals the human race." Grateful Dead
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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