Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
For yesterday is but a dream.
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Friday, January 08, 2010

I Resolve...

My resolution for the new year is… obviously it's not to stop procrastinating - look at the date!
It's… Well, let me start another way.
I was doing a search for Beecher stuff and came across a blog (Dear Reader) by one Suzanne Beecher. Ms. Beecher is a busy and ambitious young lady. She has owned a restaurant, founded and published a business magazine, founded a non-profit program to feed the homeless, home-schooled her youngest son, and writes a daily column at DearReader.com. And in her spare time she wrote a book, Muffins and Mayhem: Recipes for a Happy-if disorderly-Life which will be in bookstores on or about June 1, 2010.
That's not all. She also designs book clubs for publishers, book sellers, and libraries across the country. If you join an online book club, every day, Monday through Friday, you will receive in your email a five-minute selection from a chapter of a book. By the end of the week, you'll have read 2-3 chapters. you'll know whether or not you want to add that book to your to-read list. Additionally, since Suzanne likes contests, you could win a bubble machine, a signed copy of a book, or some of her homemade chocolate chip cookies.
But with all that what really struck me was something she wrote on Wednesday of this past week. Suzanne wrote, "I do my best writing when I'm living in Mayberry." Mayberry? Why Mayberry? Well, it has to do with making life more enjoyable - more meaningful. A way of dealing with life's little irritations and at times things that go far beyond the trivial. Looking past what might seem to be impolite and offensive and attempting to find the good. Pulling my boots out of the mire of the mundane to join the celebratory parade. Seeing life in a positive light. Not through rose colored glasses but accepting reality. To tolerate but not embrace. Allowing freedom of choice and choosing happiness. Allowing life to be more fun. And isn't that what it's all about - to have fun? Or to say it another way - to have joy or to find joy in living?
Again then, my resolution for the new year is - yes, to read more but more importantly - to find at least one thing each day that someone else has done that day to bless my life. And give thanks for it.
So, to quote Suzanne Beecher, "Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends."

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