The New Year - Starting Over Again

We get to start over again; every year, every month, every day, every hour, or every minute.

We get to SET THE STAGE anew.

Get our image closer to our soul's image of who we already are on the inside.

Here I am as an ELF.  And here is what I have to say about it:

    

  

I'm obsessed with my life.

I think I like being obsessed with my life...

Although I worry it may annoy others who want me to think about their needs more.

It's very important for me to care about others.

But that's hard to do when I'm trying to center within myself.

Here's the program: I think too much, and worry too much and feel guilty about that too much.

I need to slow down.

Yet, I love chemicals that speed me up.

Is there an internal saboteur trying to control my brain speed here, when I may just need to be concentrating better? .... Anyway, that's an ongoing internal dialog with me and myself when I'm getting tired.

I love mornings; I'm more optimistic before I realize all these little things are still there that were making me feel overwhelmed the night before.

I try to fool myself into forgetting last night’s stuff for as much of the day as I can.

Sometimes I can make it until bedtime. Those are the best days ever!

Today is still an incredibly great day!

I feel thoughtful about myself and helpful at the same time.

And I would love to secretly be an elf...

...Because elves get to make things in a cool workshop...

...And elves get to listen to someone who is jolly and fair and wise. (I believe Santa would never keep gifts from the "bad" children. That list making is way too Puritanical.)

...And elves focus on little things to help make others happy - It's a win/win situation.

In my real life in Maynard, I try to emulate the North Pole.

And in my artist lifestyle, I want to cartoon such a place among friends - animals and people and other living things.

If I succeed in allowing myself a simple lifestyle to accomplish this, I would be as happy as an Elf.

...Or possible happier because I knew how awful it could be if I wasn't living that way.

...In order for me to know this, I must have already lived this way at times.

What are these times? When I am doing something creatively.

Like now…

Bliss...and it feels like the North Pole out there today, too!