Resolutions

I do hereby resolve for the year 2016……..

to keep in my heart the joy and love I felt during Christmas 2015.
to push myself when inertia engulfs me.
to use my talents.
to squeeze more laughter out.
to connect to the positive energy around me.
to remind myself that one person’s actions can make a difference.
to be ready to listen rather than speak.
to spend minimum time wondering why I can’t remember someone’s name.
to lie in grass on a spring day.
to accept the things I cannot change.
to relish my children.
to sweat only the big stuff.
to practice those exercises so I can remember people’s names.
to build on honoring myself as I honor others.
to ignore urges to overeat, overdrink, under exercise.
to keep a carrot-games, travel, books-in clear sight at all times.
After the name remembering exercises move on to “where did I put my…”

Published by Judytwiga

I am a freelance writer and photographer who enjoys living close to the action in Knoxville, Tennessee. In the 1980s I created and published Zoo Connections, an international networking publication for non-animal zoo departments. Jobs over the years include working with the developmentally disabled, night front desk at a motel, assistant in development and membership at the NC Zoological Society, Customer Relations manager at Regal Entertainment Group, census enumerator, concessions at University of Tennessee, house cleaner, substitute teacher, sitter for children, houses, and pets. Freelance work at Knoxville News Sentinel and KnoxZine. Contributor to A Knoxville Christmas (2008,2007), and articles for the North Carolina Zoo website. Interested in anything except humorless people and politics. Enjoy reading, Scrabble, Catan, camping. I hold dear family (human and animal), friends, Kenya, Sunset Beach, NC and the Keys. View more posts