I don’t know about you all, but I’ve been so incredibly busy this past week or two, I haven’t had the time to do much more with my blog than reflect on how much I’d love to finish a post I have started (containing about 150 words so far) about Winter Solstice and Radical Love.
There’s been a multitude of family Christmas parties, wind storms (YES, we were scared to death in MICHIGAN in DECEMBER that there was a tornado!!! No such thing as global warming my ASS!), increased work schedules, and school vacation times to negotiate. Oh, and I guess that somewhere in there W* and I were supposed to have some fun…
The good news is that plans that I’ve been working on in concert with another radically awesome woman have solidified recently, and hopefully the product of those plans will be making their way out onto this blog to start the new year off right!
I also was on an amazing phone call with Nadia from the Allied Media Conference and Alisa from Incite!–one that really centered me and made me absolutely certain that the direction I am committed to taking is the right one. Paradigm shifts are afloat and hopefully they too will be making their way onto this blog in the coming year!
The bad news is that there is bad news going on all over the place–which some times makes the radical work of building new worlds seem not as urgent. Gaza is being devastated as we speak, and U.S. citizens seem think it’s all justifiable. And nobody seems to have heard that there was a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee that promises to have far reaching devastating implications for humans and the ecosystem. And this is just some of the horrible events that have happened/are happening.
But a new year is almost upon us. A new year that we all have ability to choose what will be prioritized in our lives.
I prioritize health, radical love, and growth.
How about you?
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December 29th, 2008 at 9:37 am #
Hi bfp, hope you and yours will enjoy a wonderful new year ahead.
My priority this year is courage and happiness. I’ve chosen courage this year because I think if I had prioritised it some years ago, I would be in a much better place today. I’m now at a crossroads, similar to one I’ve had in the past and this time I want to make a choice based on courage.
And as for happiness, well one of the things that surprised me most over the years was the realisation that happiness takes courage. For a long time I believed if I only did what everyone told me to, if only I fulfilled everyone’s expectations, I would be happy. I realise now it takes a lot more than that. So this year I vow to be brave and to have the courage to do what it takes to be happy and regain control of my life.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:28 am #
Health is so important. Next year I am going to do everything I can to protect my mental and physical health and tat of others.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:53 pm #
Trying to make the space of imagination broader. Seems like a lot of ugly stuff has gone down in a short period of time, and I’m feeling mighty stuck. This coming year, I’d like to turn my brain inside out. I’d like to imagine crazy things. Beautiful things.
As one sister says, weary of “no,” want to figure out “yes.”
December 29th, 2008 at 4:30 pm #
I think I will be prioritizing action and justice.
December 30th, 2008 at 9:56 am #
I’m prioritizing dissertation. Since blog gets in the way of dissertation, blog is going to fall by the wayside to some degree.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pm #
awwww, sadness!!!! Although, i KNOW that your dissertation will totally rock out as a result! Do you feel like sharing what your dissertation is about (I know the whole politics around dissertations– so don’t feel like you will be insulting if you don’t share!!!!)
January 1st, 2009 at 11:34 pm #
I was just thinking about how much i love your writing and wondering why i don’t come read it more often, and I realized…it’s because when i read your writing I know I have to respond, not through comments here but by thought and feeling and action, and sometimes I’m too lazy. but I truly love what you are doing here. Happy new year.