Day 3 of a New Decade

Dear friends, how are your new year resolutions going if you made any?

If I were to focus on the main ones, to write daily, it would seem I am failing already, but I still as if I am on winter break, which to me means cleaning and organizing. There is nothing like excess Christmas clutter to kick me into gear, plus the book, One Year to an Organized Life: From Your Closets to Your Finances, the Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Completely Organized for Good by Regina Leeds (which I mentioned in an early post also), is completely inspiring. Yes, books about organizing and clearing clutter are inspiring to me, I'm odd like that.

The book is organized by month, but in my own special Capricorn way, I'm already on April. I finished cleaning out the final room, our guest room, which could have also been named, "Room where we store stuff and close the door, then clean hectically when someone comes to visit."

While I was cleaning our laundry room, which is in the older part of our home built in 1929, I found the above art nouveau pin. It was pretty magical to find because I have never seen this before and wonder where it came from, if it has always been in our home (I've lived her for 12 years) and I've never stumbled upon it. This is another reason I love old homes, all the stories they leave behind for you. I sort of see this pin my payment for finally cleaning up.

Anyway, now that the house is back in order, my writing life returns officially tomorrow.

Next week I'll be teaching 3 classes at the Whidbey Island Writers Workshop MFA program. I'll share any interesting exercises or info afterwards.

I hope your new year's resolutions are going well and you finding the time to write and read.

Let me know how your resolutions are going, or if you're more like me and will really begin to take them seriously come tomorrow. (The real new year always starts on a Monday, methinks.)

i Ching Card of 2010: Harmony

While we were at Hedgebrook, a writer introduced me to I Ching cards. If you've ever thrown the I Ching, you know it's a long process of writing down information (if you throw pennies, than it's heads/heads/tails, etc., six times and writing it a certain way). I'm not exactly sure of the details as I've thrown the coins and let the experts keep track of the details.

Anyway, this writer introduced me these cards where each day you can choose a new card to focus on.

I chose my first card for 2010 and it was #16 Harmony.

Here's the note on the card:

When you are in harmony with the universe all things go your way. When you aren't in harmony, everything is a struggle. Inner wealth is more rewarding. Plan for the future, but you will need support from those around you.

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Here's hoping your first day of 2010 is full of harmony.


Cheers to the new year!

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