Happy NEW Year!

Tonight I am home in bed, sick, yet perfectly at peace.  I am warm, I am fed, I am blessed.  I'm thinking about those in cold who feel so very unloved (why are these people sooo very on my mind these days??) and realize how good I really do have it.  I've never known true hunger, and I've never felt truly alone.

This year has been the make it or break it for me in my new little life - and I think I just might have made it.  I moved to a city where I literally knew not a soul.  My reason?  I simply felt I needed to. Family and friends thought I was nuts, worried that as sick as I was - I would be back home in a month all the wiser.  Not a chance.  I made my rent each month (sometimes with a $1 left to my name after) and took care of my needs.  I made friends, many whom I now can't imagine life without, and transitioned my business to a whole new market.  Not once, not for a single second, have I ever regretted my decision to move and what a feeling that is.

Happy New Year; here's to a chance to make this next one even better.  My resolution?  To simply stop and reflect more, give love, give thanks, turn off the electronic devices and not be afraid to stop and sit still and be perfectly happy in my own skin.