The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: A New Decade

Friday, January 1, 2010

A New Decade

DH and I shared a bottle of Asti last night right before midnight. Oh, that stuff is SO good. I had no problem sleeping the night away. We rarely drink anymore and if we do, it makes us very sleepy. It was a quiet New Year's Eve. Midnight came, DH went to bed, and I watched Fox News for a while..... all those cold, crazed people in Times Square jumping around trying to keep warm. Can you imagine the clean up crew it must take to get all that confetti off the streets of New York? It is festive loooking, though. I love New York ~ I'm just not sure I would want to be there in that mob of people.

And so we begin a new decade ~ 2010 !

HAPPY, HAPPY, NEW YEAR!!

4 comments:

Anne Huskey-Lockard said...: I hope you had a glass for me.......boo-hoo, WAH!!!!
Sounds like a nice way to welcome the new year!

XXOO!!
Anne; January 1, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Have a Great NEW Decade!!
Love,
Marilyn
xxoo; January 1, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Marlene said...: Happy New Year Audrey; January 1, 2010 at 12:11 PM
OmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirts said...: Sweet Man and I split a bottle of sparkling apple cider (non alcoholic) with GereaKaye and waited for midnight. At 9, she thinks staying up late is wonderful. About 10:45 there was some very even breathing from her end of the couch.....snzzzzzzzzz, but she rallied and did make it to 12.
You're right about the mess in New York, fun to look at from home but I don't think I could do "the masses" anymore. Maybe way back when. Happy New Year, dear lady, Lind in New Mexico; January 1, 2010 at 12:57 PM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.