New years, new you.

New years, new you.  You know the drill by now.  New years is a fresh start, a rebirth.  I think we forget, each moment is a fresh start, a new beginning.  All we have is right now, the past is past, the future is not here and actually, it never comes.  All we have is this moment.  Make it your resolution to embrace each moment because you are never getting another one like this one.  Whittle your focus down and embrace the now.  The choices you are making, the words you are saying, the thoughts you are thinking each moment are what you experience.  What do you want to live?  A life of joy?  Then be joyful.  A life of beauty?  Then be beautiful.  A life full of love?  Then be loving.  It’s your life to live, live it how you want to see it and that it is.  

Nothing is guaranteed

We are given this gift of life never knowing when it is going to end. If you are lucky you will have many years to enjoy it, to expirience all that you can in the time you are here. For others time is very short. So many of us look at life as a chore. I have to get to work, I have to go to the grocery store, I have to do this or do that. What I am asking you to do is stop. Take a look around at the things that are really important, your family, your friends, your health. Things that actually mean something. Take a moment to feel the sun on your face, the breeze against your skin, the song of the birds. Life is hard, life is sad, life is exciting, life is amazing. Make your life what you want it to be and don’t get so distracted from the mundane that you forget to enjoy the simplest of pleasures.

Winter you’re killing me

Winter time just about kills me.  I get stressed, tired, unmotivated, fat, and with my autoimmunity I have weird symptoms such as my fingernails stop growing and fall off my right hand.  So yeah, I could pretty much do without winter time.  The holidays do not illicit joy for me.  They are just stressful!  The definition of holiday is: 

hol·i·day

ˈhäliˌdā/

noun

 

1. 1.

   a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done.

    

   Um HELLLLLLOOOOOOOO!  Do you see above?  Who does no work on a holiday?  Maybe instead of buying a bunch of useless shit for Christmas lets do NOTHING for one whole day and feel no guilt about it?  Just my proposal.

    

   Ok, one winter problem solved.  let’s move on to the second.

    

   It’s cold and cold hurts.  Yes, of course I can keep putting on clothes until I look like the Pilsbury dough boy(which I kinda almost do without clothes thanks to that devil called sugar but this is the next problem, so wait for it.)  But you see I am adverse to wearing a lot of clothes, they are restrictive and I have some issues with that.  Deeper than just the clothes but we aren’t having a counseling session right now so we won’t go there.  Worse than that is the fingernail thing.  I have a suspicion that it has to do with lack of sunlight even though all the 20 or so doctors I have seen have no idea what the fuck it is.  So my plan is to move south.  

    

   There, another problem solved.  Next.

    

   Sugar.  Cookies, cakes, pies, donuts, candy.  Shit.  It is everywhere.  It’s like at night when we go to sleep all the desserts start humping and making new desserts.  They multiply worse than rabbits.  For some reason though I won’t eat a rabbit.  In they’re sweet fluffily cuteness, how could you eat them?  Little off subject, back to desserts.  I’m not really sure what to do about this one.  Let me go eat a chocolate chip cookie and think about it….

    

   I think the bears get it right.  Winter is about hibernating.  Eating meat and root veggies, stews, roasts and pies, sleeping and relaxing. We have to understand our systems and rhythms to feel good and stay in tune.  There is so much distraction in our lives away from what matters, being with friends and family, helping those in need and just spreading love.  Slow down, stop putting so much pressure on yourselves for one day out of the year.