2009 is drawing to a close and in hours it will be the year 2010 ( Sherry Lee, that does sound futuristic/sci-fi doesn’t it?! LOL). 2010

My word for journey in 2010, I picked LIVE. Sonrie noticed the capitalization and the emphasis on it ( I’m sure others did too) but I wish it knowingly came from me. I mean yes, it came from these fingertips but I really believe it was something deep inside me SCREAMING it out. That after 39 years of life, it really is time to LIVE…


I feel like I have been going through the motions for awhile now. I’ve said it before but but didn’t take any real action on it. A few years back my doctor had asked me about how much exercise or activity I get in a given day and when I told her how MUCH activity I got in a given day, she was pretty excited. But when I broke it down to her, she shook her head and said the term ‘stress movement’ to me in an comparison for actual exercise. Just because my schedule requires me to run around like a chicken with my head cut off, that doesn’t allow me to check it off my to do list as exercise. And such is the way of life….


I run around like a chicken with my head cut off. I am busy all the time. I have very little if any down time. In 6 months time I have managed to put 7800 miles on my brand new car (not an easy thing to do where I live). We all have busy lives. We all are scheduled out the waazoo. But I no longer just want to be busy with life. I want to live life. I want to enjoy it. I want to experience all it has to offer. And not just go through the motions….

I think I deserve that for a change.

I think we all deserve that and then some.

I don’t expect 2010 to a party one after the other. I don’t expect to automatically turn into this party animal that drinks and goes out all the time. That is NOT me. Never has been. Never will be. I accept that in me and most of my loved ones, accept it.

But what I do want is to savor my moments. Slow down to experience them. To take the time and not just rush through them but to learn from them. Photograph the down times as well as the busy. John Lennon said
‘Life is what happens to you when you are busy making plans’

Schedules and calendars help make life easier…but I don’t want them to MAKE my life

Here’s to 2010…peace, happiness, grace and joy. And to living the life we were promised…

!LIVE!