Goals

Since the new year has just happened upon us, I thought it was important to sit down and seriously think about what I wanted in to do in the next year. I wanted to think about how I could improve my life as well as the lives of others. My boyfriend, Aaron, and I had this discussion about what is so special about New Years and all of those resolutions. Well, I don't really think there is anything particularly special but the best I can do is compare it to a Monday. You know, last week sucked. All of these things went wrong and now it's Monday. It's a new, fresh start. You haven't screwed anything up yet. So, even though I don't believe in resolutions, because well, they are so...resolute I guess, here are the ones I made this year. But for the sake of me not wanting to join the millions of people who feel like they are failing at something in life and need to make a change, these will not be called resolutions. They are goals. I like that word better. It seems to be able to morph into something else easier; this goal changed and then became this new goal. I enjoy myself the way that I am, but if I was perfect, all I would do all day would be to masturbate to my own reflection. It's much more interesting and fun and challenging and truthful to be a work in progress. So, as a work in progress, here is my list, in no particular order:

1. Learn to make cheese, soap and bath products
2. Make 4 more tobacco pipes
3. Exercise for at least 4 hours a week
4. Be more frugal
5. Be more thankful
6. See more beauty in everyday things
7. Spend more time outside
8. Be a better farmer
9. Smile, laugh and be more aware of my mood/feelings and how they affect others
10. Go on a vacation with Aaron
11. Be nicer than I think I should be
12. Drink more water
13. Write, read, react, record.

Up to lucky number 13. I know, it's an omen for success.


this is a pic that Aaron took of my with my hair fluffed out. A friend of mine says, "the higher the hair, the closer to Jesus". I'm thinking this is a southern saying. Well, I'm not southern and I'm not religious but I'd like to think, "the higher the hair, the closer to enlightenment"...or something like that.