expansion*

1st grader art as seen on display at South County Library, Charlotte

Hello!

I have been spending considerable (for me) time offline since the beginning of the new year. I was finding that I was trying to fill myself up on reading blogs, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. What I know to be absolutely true for me is that while I find all of these things super inspiring, my true source of inspiration comes from within and from spiritual sources (all the same really). There is room for it all in my life, but I have been needing to make space. I don't believe there are mistakes here for me, I am just expanding my support and resources in new ways.

With that being said, my word for 2010 is expansion (as in limitless)

I know that for me, I have a tendency to want to limit myself and take things away in an attempt to "improve" my life. But what if there wasn't anything to take away? No bad habits to kick? I am proposing to myself that I simply allow the space in my life for limitless expansion, for things to be even better than I could have imagined.

I am loving this quote right now which I read in Sabrina Ward Harrison's "Brave on the Rocks":

"God calls you the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet" by Frederick Buechner

greetings and happy 2010!

I am so grateful 2010 has arrived. I love feeling of new beginnings and this is often when I feel most inspired. S and I are going to our tradition of Mondo Beyondo and my word for 2010 when he returns from Minneapolis. I am a little relieved to have the space and time to marinate about 2009 and what my intentions for 2010 are.

I spent New Years in Atlanta with my dear friend Sara. We went to a really fun party that had a burning bowl ceremony and fun little dance parties going on. We actually arrived home at 11:30 in time to watch an amazing fireworks show in our PJ's! It was so fun, maybe the best part of the night.