"Your Tom-Tom"....

You know that navigational system some people have in their cars? How many times has it given you the most frustrating directions...

What navigates your decisions? Your feelings? Is your "internal Tom-Tom" a little off these days?

Have you been making wrong turn after wrong turn - delaying your arrivals and hindering your progress. That is even worse than going right back to the beginning of the journey to start all over again.

This year, I am raising my proverbial glass in thanks for the ability that I have to direct my own decisions. Not an easy thing when your life is directed by alot of variable and not in your control circumstances. A great man once said that some things you decide and some things you discover... I venture to add that there are some things that are just plain out of your control and THAT'S OK! That does not mean that you cannot still create and direct yourself into having a rich, full, liberated existence, filled with joy, contentment and discovery of yourself, relationships and the wonderful world you live in.

I am thankful that I can with the richness of my experiences and the support and love of wonderful family and great friends, achieve solidarity - financially,mentally and spiritually. Not only do I want solidarity, though.. I want my heart to hear music, my life to write poetry, my mind to paint on the canvas of the world all of me and all my passions. To seek and find, to be found, to stop searching a realm because I have reached the pinnacle of my pursuits and then start again.

Many things can engender disappointment.. But I refuse to allow disppointment to disable me in life.. disppointment, pain.. will come.. like floods..

And have.. but they came and went.

And as they come in the future, so shall they also go.. and here I am....

Thankful with a bursting heart for my life. Everyday... everyday. That is a decision no one else can direct for you.

Give thanks. In all things.