This picture hangs over my computer table. I have grown up with it, it used to be over the mantel in the living room. It's quite soothing to me to look up and see something that I have seen all of my life. Yes, I may have too much "stuff", I need to clean out, to purge. But how can you discard something that reminds you of your childhood especially if you had one that was filled with love, imagination, and acceptance? Almost all of our pictures have been here all my life. I have added a few but they are all old and fit right in so you would never know they were newcomers! So I glance up and see this beautiful Grecian grouping and it causes much reflection of the past, even more so on this New Year's Day of 2012. Are there things I would have done differently? Certainly! Are there things I've regretted? Of course. But am I glad of where I am now, right now, in this present and everyday life of mine? Oh yes, a thousand times yes. I am so thankful for my family and my friends and this hectic life that I need to "balance" it makes my heart hurt. I make New Year's resolutions, do you? I do and I don't stop on New Year's Day, I make them on and off for several months! This year I want to have a little more calmness, a bit more time to breathe deeply and smell the roses, so to speak. My second resolution is to clean out a bit and simplify. Will I succeed at such endeavors? I can try. But I will tell you this--I have no desire to "clean out" pictures that remind me of childhood memories and IF I don't succeed I can always make the same resolutions Next year!!!
