“I’m not sure what imagination has to do with health…”
I’m watching the Rose Parade as I write this and feeling very ready to mute the sound. The announcers are driving me crazy… saying the most inane things imaginable. Perhaps they partied too hard last night, but they seem really grumpy. One of the floats, by Kaiser Permanente, was: “Oh, the healthy things you can do:” A beautiful float with all sorts of ways of being well. Included in this was imagine. Their take on this- “Maybe you can imagine you’re not sick.” It was pretty clear they missed the point, but then I guess you need some imagination in order to get it. After that they saw a beautiful float with landmarks from around the world. They described the Eiffel Tower as made from coffee beans; they’re comment, “It would be more appropriate if it were made from tobacco.”The last time I was in France, though, I saw many more people sipping amazing coffee than smoking. Happy 2013, France. Today starts 2013… a year that promises many good things so I am going to turn off the parade (where they are showing a gimmick of two people getting married on top of one of the floats) and get started enjoying my first day of the new year! Happy 2013. I wish everyone a year filled with wonderful imagination, lots of coffee and every good thing you could wish for but one; so that in 2014 you have something left to strive for. Deanne
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Christmas is over. The presents are opened and the wrapping paper crumpled in the trash or folded neatly for next year (if you are one of those people:>). We have put away the nice china and silverware and I’ve begun looking at diets to purge some of my extra holiday pounds. I should feel ready to turn my thoughts to the New Year. But, uncertainty is in the air.
What will the New Year hold? Will our grief at the tragedies here and in CT lighten at all? Will there be anything good, like gun control debate, to come from it? Will congress find a way to stop acting like bratty three year olds and actually work to find a solution to our fiscal problems (not simply kick the problem down the road). And on a personal level, what will happen with my writing? Will I be able to revise my third story and find a home for it with a great publisher? Will UNTANGLING THE KNOT be picked up for review and receive a good one? Will my marketing plans for it come to fruition? I suppose this time of year always holds some sense of the unknown. Yet this year, more than ever, it feels cosmic. Maybe the end of the world, as the Mayans predicted, on 12-21-12 was less an apocalypse and more a metamorphosis. We are at the beginning of something… so early into a new journey that we still have choices about where we will go. I look forward to sharing the journey with you all, wherever it may lead and thank you for sharing yours with me. |
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