I post this SoulCollage® card I call "Welcoming the New Year" to help me focus on what is important for me in 2010. I guess it could be in the Committee suit, but I could easily see it in Council or Community.
This card means a lot to me personally. I've long had the first layer stored in my image file but hadn't discovered what I wanted to do with it. I am with a friend bundled together for comfort in the cold, but it could as easily be my daughter or granddaughter with me.
I am the one who has spent New Year's Eve alone the past few years but it has taken time to be solitarily comfortable on this mythical night which has always been synonymous with being with others. I am the one who this year tucked into bed with my journal with my new doggie Mollie at my side. I am the one who reviewed 2009 and wrote gratitudes to see the old year out.
But, I am also the one who wished she were out on the front lawn, wrapped in a warm homemade quilt passed on from my mom, watching the blue moon when the fireworks went off. I am the one who will try not to hole up in 2010; I am always busy, but I'm not always engaged, to tell the truth.
Hovering nearby is the endangered Palos Verdes Blue butterfly and to me butterflies symbolize transition, resurrection, soul-presence. Together we are in the now but we are looking into the new year of 2010. We pray for peace on our planet and light to heal the differences which often separate humanity.
A question? How can I remain intentional and yet carry on the daily tasks, activities and sometimes sorrow with an attitude of gratefulness?
This will be my first "creation" as part of Leah Piken Kolidas's Creative Every Day 2010 project. I'll write more about that tomorrow.
I've been so into my art journals the past few months that I haven't been making many SoulCollage® cards. It feels like coming home, and coming home is actually the basic feeling I have with this card.
My wish for all of you is a healthy, happy and abundant new year.
