What an amazing year. I reread my Jan 1 2005 entry and 2005 pretty much delivered. I did some really amazing growing in 2005, second child and work experience as expected, unfortunate waistline post partum, etc... but 1000 other things that wouldn't seem like much of anything to anyone else. Small pieces of wisdom and karmic settlement I hope to hang onto. Things you learn and then forget aren't so very useful. If I have a New Year's resolution for 2006 it's to hang onto the serenity I found in 2005.
2006 will be a challenging year. But the challenges have changed. Learn to work from a place of proactive creation rather than reactive fear. (The new job supports this.) Take active steps towards all the things I want for my family over the coming years. Remember to enjoy the full array of gifts we seem stunningly to just keep having. Keep hands outstretched to the life full of people we drift and almost don't see. Live. Just live.
And if I HAVE to have a concrete goal -- the Quilt That Will Not Die will be finished this year. Which is of course, why I am compulsively working on the Christmas Stocking That Will Not Die (and which I expect to take another year) instead.
Posted by karen at January 2, 2006 10:02 PM