For my friends with children right now, there is no time to navel gaze and contemplate their lives – they are in the thick of it – survival is what we call it in the trenches. But for some of my friends they are doing big things with their lives – in the process of doing full time jobs, they are redoing a house, participating in Burning Man, organizing something special for neighborhood kids, and getting scuba certified.\u00a0
Makes me feel so one dimensional to sit around and think about my immediate little life right here with all its drama and not see a world so much larger than the one of my making. My wish for 2008 is to enlarge my vision – to see globally not only in my work but in my life and even beyond global – universal – interplanetary – far out and cosmic.\u00a0
And while I open my eyes to a greater world, I want to also be thankful every moment for things like the lady bug that flew on my mother’s hand when we were having breakfast and I said, look how great and she said, look at my age spots, and we laughed till we were belly laughing. I want these moments with my mother before she is no longer here. I also want to always notice the lady bugs – not the age spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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