COURAGE

At the beginning of this new year, I encountered a blog which suggested that you choose a word that will become Your Word for the year. My Inner Voice immediately spoke COURAGE - so that is my personal mantra for 2008. It is a perfect choice for it is an attribute that I feel I have not embraced for most of my lifetime. I might as well venture forth into my sixty-second year with that empowering word on my lips... and see what manifests!

Above the computer is this quote from Christopher Robin to Pooh - what better mentor for my new found COURAGE:

You're braver than you believe,

and stronger than you seem,

and smarter than you think.

eat,pray,love

As of January 20th, I have four books on my bedside table with a determination to do more reading in 2008. I am especially enjoying the humour and spiritual reflection prevalent in Elizabeth Gilbert's: eat, pray, love. Along with Syb and Jill, I will be seeing/hearing her in person at the Kay Meek Center, West Vancouver on March 31st. Truly looking forward to that evening's experience.

Inspiration

I was inspired to begin a New Year's blog with this quote by Gwen Randall-Young from COMMON GROUND:

This entire lifetime, even the lifetime of our species, is but a brief instant. Perhaps the ego experience is like a reverse dream for soul. Life may simply be soul's dreaming, dropping for a brief time into worldliness.