A happy New Years to all my readers, clients, coworkers, and supporters.
It's been a very lovely holiday season, although it began with a less than enthusiastic beginning. Yet, I've learned the lesson many times that holding on to the negative doubts and worries does nothing for me. I have to turn my brain towards the positive, and learning to push my criticisms to the next step of finding doable solutions.
I'm not doing resolutions this year, however. I'm setting intentions.
I intend this year to be a year of more Doing, less mental planning.
I intend this year to be one where I will keep challenging myself to expand my edges, and push some comfort zones.
I intend this year to one of more questions, less excuses.
I intend to live even more authentically this year, take a chance on this "be more vunerable" kick.
On that note, I'm going to share a little secret. One I've wanted to say, although you may be able to guess.
I'm not that much of a capitalist. I don't have a label for my economic theories, as I'm still examing everything. I do believe this much: every dollar spent is a vote. I believed this before I heard Dennis Kisinich speak at Burning Man, and hearing him say it only strengthened this belief. I do what I can to support my local communities over large corporations. I try to keep things flowing.
Now, that's something I take seriously, and I want to thank you all for every single vote of support you've given me over the years.
Another secret: I thank each of you, to myself, as I spent or deposit that money.
In my journey to free myself from dependency on "the system," I discovered one can never really be independent....even if I had my own land, farm, solar panel yadda yadda, I would be dependent upon local politics for security, my community of friends to not feel lonely (at the very least!) the whole of humanity to keep the air breathable and earth habitable....we can only strive towards a willed interdependence. We can choose our relationships to a great extent, if we are also willing to accept that responsibility. The opposite is the claim, oh no but we don't choose our blood relations....which is true. The choice is in what we do with that relation, how we let it shape us.
Most every day, I choose you. I choose this path continuously and I am grateful to have it. This has opened up so many more doors than it has closed for me.
So in closing, a little toast I heard throughout the evening: Champange for my friends, and real pain for my cham friends.
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