New Beginnings

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.  I am happy to get back to life as usual.  But I don't want it to be usual, oh no, not at all.  As I have spent time contemplating the new year, I found a few things that I really want to focus on this year.  I already spoke of bringing my life into balance; that is a primary goal, and everything else really fits into that.  I also want this year to be absolutely beautiful.

I used to know this wonderful woman back in Dallas, many years ago.  Something she said to me really stuck.  She was telling me about her work;  she had her own business creating events that promoted Latin American culture.  I guess she was an event coordinator, but the way she described it is what was meaningful to me.  She spread her arms and said joyfully, "I create experiences!"  And she certainly did; I attended a few and they were wonderful, sensual experiences.

That's what I think of now when I think about this year ahead; I want to create a beautiful life experience everyday, through how I decorate my home, the art I create, and the meals I serve.  I want to be able to share through this blog as well.

Over the past year that I've been writing here, I've kind of been all over the place.  I've gone through phases of cooking and art making and photography.  I talk about random things that go on in my life.  If I look at my my very first post where I describe what I intend to do here, I said I wanted to chronicle my journey as an artist and a being in this world, that the blog is meant to be about the art of life.  So in that regard I have been true to my theme.  I want to bring it all more into focus though.

My goal for the year is to make this blog a place you will want to come to for inspiration.  I want to focus much more on it being about living a creative life, about making life a beautiful event.  I still intend to record my own artistic journey here, and hopefully that will be inspiring.  I also want to offer lots of ideas and projects, and I hope you will join in the conversation as well.  My primary reason for writing this blog is because it brings me joy.  I hope that I will be able to share that joy.

I don't know yet exactly what changes may come, or what I intend to do here.  I have some vague ideas, and it's going to be an evolving process.  When I figure out my path, I expect I'll hear an "ah ha!"  If you have any ideas for what you might like to see here, please let me know.  And if there is something I do here that makes you not want to come back, let me know that too.

As my good friend says, "go zen in 2010"!  I'm ready for it:)