be here now.

I no longer look at old years and think " oh good riddance, that year really sucked, I hope the new one is better" . It's silly. Years are just arbitrary collections of days we've corralled into a system of time keeping. There will be joy and sorrow and likely a whole lot of tedium in any one of those blocks of time. I'm ok with that.

I'm not going to burden 2012 with having to keep me happy every step of the way. I know with certainty that isn't going to happen. There will be good and bad days and how I deal with that will be entirely up to me. I expect I will be stellar sometimes and an absolute whiny child at others. It hardly matters.

On any given day, I treasure the joys and challenges of time spent with family and friends and those moments collect and became hours and days and months and years and good or bad or indifferent I am simply present for all of them.

Now, I'm going to snuggle back under the covers with a book. I can hear my family breathing quietly and sleeping in their beds. The birds are waking up and chattering at each other. Mostly, it's a blissfully quiet morning.

Happy New Year.

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[2paw]

Happy New Year to you and yours. I am glad to see the back of 2011, and I know the year is not responsible and I am not thinking 2012 will in any way be a better year but I think I have a better mindset. Oh I am envious, it's too hot here for snuggling under the covers!!