Hail the New Year!

Here we sit in the twilight of 2009 shadows, revelling and reminiscing, while awaiting the dawn of the bright and shiny new year at this, the cusp of yet a new decade.

I can remember the ringing in of this previous decade as if it were yesterday ..Y2K .. do you remember? And here we find ourselves now in this familiar position once again - how very quickly this decade has unravelled and revealed itself! How very much it has shown to me.

"Fast away the old year passes... hail the new year lads and lasses."

I sit, I breathe, I collect my thoughts .. my accomplishments and my failings; my dear friends and countless drifters; my dreams, hopes and aspirations, as I look ahead to the opportunities - the possibilites - waiting for me down the path of this new year. For always, every where in life, there are endless possibilities.

I feel grateful for all that has come before: my family and intimate relations, the transient people I have met on this great journey, the joy I have felt, all the choices I have made, the experience I have lived through, the knowledge I have realised - for all of it has brought me to this beautiful place in my history, to this very moment in time, to me - for all of it has brought me .. to me.


"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost, 'The Road Not Taken.' 1920

I look ahead, down the long narrow path, to what awaits me - my future - with no fear, but rather only great excitement and enthusiasm.

I have so very much left on my 'to do' list of life!

How very fortunate I am to have this shiney new year; to own this healthy body, this sound mind, this adventurous spirit so as to carry on in my travels, my journeys .. though this lifetime called Katarina!

Bright beautiful blessings to you my lovely friends and fellow travellers, as we embark on another glorious year and a million new adventures!

Peace.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
- Robert Frost, 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' 1923