band wagon

So after much procrastination, I'm writing my first post of 2011.

I didn't know exactly what to say about the new year for awhile, and now that I have a sense of it, I still don't feel fully prepared.

I feel like my life has shifted, perhaps imperceptibly, this past year.

At home, I was living alone with one cat, and now I am living with someone and with another cat!

At work, I was working with a good friend, and now I am once again the sole person fully devoted to my department.

I was just beginning to do yoga, and now I am struggling to get back into it.

I am much more settled in this life than last year's, and I bit more forward thinking, in the sense that I have a foundation to built upon and am living less day-to-day in a skeleton of an emerging life. I know mostly how I want to live this year and what I would like to do. It's exciting, but at the same time, not exciting in the same way that last year was, when I was sprinting and stopping, sprinting and stopping. Now it's a steady race.

I hope everyone has a wonderfully reflective and celebratory beginning of the new year. Don't feel like you need to be anywhere than where you are right now. You are meant to be there. And don't worry so much about what you'll accomplish this year as who you will become. Being is the important thing.

Love, D