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I hate resolutions. Especially those made on January first of any given year. Why do we do it? Why must we clasp our hands together, naive eyes wide (blinkety-blink) and proclaim with such optimistic certainty, “this year I resolve to…” (blink-blink). Lose weight. Save money. Sleep eight hours. Floss. Whatever.

I remember many years ago talking with a friend who wished out loud she had more time for yoga. As I started to count the ways she could possibly find the time she interrupted with, “the truth is I don’t want to. I mean, if I really wanted to spend more time doing yoga I would have done it by now. Dontcha think?” Huh. She had a point. A really good point.

I have never forgotten that conversation. And yet, on my birthday (to avoid the cliche of New Year’s Resolutions) I find myself resolving, year after year, to make myself into something I’m not; to do something I can’t; to like or love something I won’t. Not this year. This year is going to be different. If you are keeping up with me you  already know I resolved (on the LunaSea side) to read differently. So what about the JustCause side?

The Nonresolution Resolutions (in no particular order):

  1. Continue the Book Lust Challenge
  2. Go to Monhegan at least once in 2012
  3. Do one amazing thing in Hawaii
  4. See my family on a regular basis
  5. Cook 4-5 homemade, everything from scratch, meals a week (no shortcuts)
  6. Write letters, send cards, blog
  7. Carry a camera
  8. Find the one good thing to be grateful for each and every day.
  9. Walk the Just ‘Cause Cancer walk every year until I can’t
  10. Spazz out whenever I want, however I want.

There. That’s it. Nothing earth shaking or shattering. Nothing high pressure. Things I’m already doing but could be done with a little more awareness. Not quite sure how to spazz out with more awareness, but there it is.

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