Ok….New Year’s….every year we are encouraged to give up the past and embrace the new on December 31st and January 1st.  I’ve never been a fan of this convention.  I love Christmas and never feel like giving it up so quickly.

For personal reasons I’ve decided to begin my year(for next year) in September rather than January.  For the last few months I’ve been living with the feeling that there are changes coming up for me this September to September period.    I even have the feeling that some of these may be cataclysmic in a good way….A couple of transformations are expected.  Next July I will complete my 500 hour yoga training.  Next September an important work decision will be in my hands.  I feel as though there are parts of my future just simmering away somewhere awaiting realization and manifestation.  The following quote from “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke is going to be my (gentle) battle cry through this year as I encounter and embrace all the twists, turns, nightmares, dreams, kicks, kisses, meditations and whatever wonders come onto the path.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

I promise to live the questions and to really try to love them. I will try to not quest after the elusive answer, but rather rest in the beauty of the question and all the possibilities the question brings After all, who really wants answers. Most of them are terminal, anyway, right. I’m interested in answers of expansion. Yeah, life, let’s dance with that for a while….the expansive answer…music, painting, writing, prayer, love.