RESOLUTIONS

I hope everyone is having a Happy Holiday Season wherever you live and however you celebrate. I’m pleased to live in America where I’m free to observe the holidays as I choose. Thank goodness, governments or other ruling bodies cannot control what we feel in our heart; although with all our mind-blowing innovative technology, that, too, may someday happen. But today we will fill our minds and hearts with happy thoughts, love for our fellow man, and generosity for those who are needy in body or spirit.

A New Year is fast approaching and making resolutions appears to be a universal activity we indulge in as we lift our glasses to one another. Some might say I march to a different drummer, because I don’t make resolutions - at least I don’t write them down - perhaps because I usually fail to follow through. I’m human, after all, and life seems to dictate what I do, don’t, or can’t accomplish. I’m flexible that way.  I just daily do my best. Why did it take me so long to arrive at this point? Life got in my way (if you don’t believe it, read my memoir, “Life Interrupted”.

Perhaps it would be more productive to look back at what we’ve accomplished during the previous year? At least the past was real. The future is only a myth. If you’ve moved your family to a safer neighborhood, gotten that college degree, found that substitute job in this unsettled economy, or succeeded in growing a bumper crop of green beans or Brussel sprouts, you can feel good about yourself. So make that list of past accomplishments.

Personally, I’m glad to have survived another year. I’ve cultivated new friends and been able to keep the tried and true ones. The most meaningful gift we can give others is our friendship - and a helping hand.

I hope the New Year will be kind, but if it has other plans for me, I’ll work my way through those plans the best I can. Optimism is the key word - but optimism must be accompanied by action. Idle hands are definitely the Devil’s workshop. Let’s click the “off” button of negativity, open our minds and hearts to those sometimes hidden gems of possibility. Let’s humble ourselves and be open and ready to accept what the universe offers.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, my faithful followers, and thank you for giving me the gift of your time by reading my books. I hope it was time well spent. The worst thing a writer can do is waste a reader’s time. I RESOLVE to do my utmost never to do that.    Marie

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