Who Will You Be In 2012…

I’ve noticed a link on Facebook lately that creates your Indian name…I’m just not comfortable going anywhere that seems to invade your privacy…so…alas…I’ve remained unnamed…until now…

So…here’s the game…what is the last thing you were doing last year…or the first thing you were doing this year…that kind of blurs…you take that…and make a funky Indian name from it…

If you were giving your hubby a kiss as the ball dropped…you might be…Smoochy Wife…or…Kisses at Midnight…

Snacking on the hors d’oeuvres at a party…Buffett Grazer…

Snoring loud enough to wake the neighbors…Log Sawer…

Partying a little too hardy…Hugging John…or…Laughing Lampshade…

I think you get the idea…

Me…I have a choice…Sleeps with Kleenex…or…Blows Nose A Lot…I’m not sure which to choose…the first sounds a little promiscuous…the second sounds like maybe I should be one of King Arthur’s knights…

Either way…I think I’ll be changing it as soon as I can breathe again…which I hope is very soon…

How does…Blogging Dawn…sound…I think it may be a keeper…

But for now…have a wonderful start to 2012…and please share your name with us…enquiring minds and all…

Sleeps with Kleenex

My Best Intentions…

Okay…so I’m supposed to be writing…but…it’s been a while…and my fingers don’t seem to work just right…or…write…or…maybe…just maybe…it is my brain that isn’t working…or…more honestly…I think it is my heart…

I do try to write from my heart…but…it is full…full of the sadness of the week…full of love and support…full of new memories with grandbabies and daughters…full of memories of the past…full of hope for the future…

The only thing is…when it’s really full…it’s like an overtired baby…it’s cranky…it can’t quite settle down…there’s no soothing…it’s not quite sure what it wants…what words want to come out first…second…never…

I want to work out my thoughts for the New Year…for 2012…what is my intention for the year…I long ago gave up the traditional resolution…the claiming of things to give up for the year…has proven to be a setup for failure…no…I find it much more productive to set an intention…an overall feeling…theme for the year…and…let it evolve as it will…

This year’s was…treating me gently…and…truly…I struggled with that one…learning to listen to my body…and…more importantly…to abide by what it was telling me…learning to trust the wisdom from within…has been challenging…and…I’m still a work in progress…still catching myself in an inner diatribe…still criticizing my limits…but…I have made progress…I have found practices that are sustaining me…I am writing again…I am healing with the forgiveness prayer…I am calming with Reiki…I have a network of loving, supportive people in my life…

Now…as 2012 approaches…my intention is…to live fully…I’m not certain of all the nuances of that…I know that it means to fully engage with the moment…whatever the activity of that moment may be…I hope it means…more activity…physically…socially…I hope it means…opening my heart and life to more…I hope it means feeling good…and having more energy…

I’m not sure exactly what it means…but…I think it will be interesting to see how this intention plays out…what shows up…what moves on…

Jane