This is my new word for the year. I started choosing a word of the year instead of a New Year's Resolution last year. I felt like a word could incorporate so much more into my life than a few small "wishes" if you will. Last year I chose the word "Simplify". I truly wanted to take stock of my life and weed out all of the junk that was causing me to feel so much chaos. I don't feel like that word was a complete failure but to be honest I didn't really focus on making it important until the last few months of 2013. So much was going on in my life last year that was beyond my control. At one point we had 3 foster kids in the home, Steve quit is job of 11 years to start his own company, family members died, etc... Not until around August did I feel like I could really step back and look at what could be cut out and made simple. Over the holidays I really feel into a funk. It happens around this time every year and I am pretty ...
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson