Yes, I am thinking that will be my phrase for the beginning of 2009. Ano Nuevo, vida nueva ~ New Year, new life! I won't get philosophical but this takes on a meaning for me that gives me a positive outlook for this year. We all can take a point in time, and I think January 1 does that for us. We can take from the year just completed all the things we've learned and use what helps us to grow for the year to come.
I want to be an encouragement to those around me. Haven't we heard enough negative? Haven't we heard enough of the economic down fall, the wars in the middle east, the politics, or fill in the blank...? Are we willing to do anything about it? I think we can, but sometimes it is easier to complain, me included. It is easier to rant and rave rather then to do something. What you ask? Are we doing the best we can in the way we handle our own money? Not a time to gripe about others, but we can take care of what we have. What can we do about the wars in the middle east? We can send letters to the soldiers, we can bring a loaf of bread or cookies to a neighbor that has someone in the service and tell them we appreciate the service that they are doing and the sacrifice that their loved ones here at home are making. And politics, are you voting? Are you volunteering your time to the "party" you support? You get the point. We all can do something; we just need to look around and see that people all over need us to be an encouragement to them in some way. Maybe you can't get out of your home, can you pray?
I hope you take a moment to be thankful for what you do have, and how you can share even a little bit with someone around you. I'm not so sure about karma, but I do know that it is just the right thing to do regardless of the idea, what goes around comes around.
This will most likely be the most serious of all my post. I really pray that this year is a year where you can look back and know you did things to be an encouragement to someone. Imagine the ripple effect this will have on your community.
Ano Nuevo, vida nueva!
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Also, appreciate your spouse as much as I appreciate mine. She is the best.
A not so secret admirer.
Ollie's mom's espouso
Hi Beautiful!!!!
Thank you so much for posting the Pictures.
Ollie is beautiful too - can see why he's such a sweet companion for you. And just for the record, I have always talked to my pets also. My dad said that he used to wonder why I did that, but now knows they listen!
God Bless you Janice,
give Ollie a hug for me ok.
I love you cousin. lenore
I'm enjoying your travelog Jan . . .both the serious and the casual! Yes, I too believe that dogs can truly "sense" what you're saying. [They didn't get the title "Woman's best friend" for nothing, ya know! :)
Your semi-philosophical piece was on target. Thanks for the new year's encouragements . . .
From the sound of it you are definitely making friends and definitely keeping busy. Wow . . .do you think of yourself as the proverbial lady-of-leisure? Ha.
Gotta run . . courses to teach. Love,
Your Luxemburg Bro
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