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I just cannot get enough of this image and had to save it. (via Joslyn on Pinterest, Leslie Williamson from Handcrafted Modern).

Inspired by the Ted talk above this is my 2012 wish for us all.

“let ourselves be truly seen, love with our whole hearts, practice gratitude & joy and believe that we are enough.”

Thank you Julia.

Instead of the planned running amuck, our holidays have become quite simple… trip to santa clause, a party with friends, a bit of family, a pile of clementines and a few decorations.  I think we have time for one last hurrah & I am planning a drive through of the holiday lights in Brooklyn this weekend!  Happy Holidays!

After many months of complaining from my husband (our previous isp was unreliable) we’ve moved over to afatcow. Perhaps I’m rusty but it is taking me a while to get wordpress up and running again.  Email was immediately working fine and thankfully that’s all my other cares about.

It has been strange to not have this running journal to keep track of thoughts. Meanwhile, pinterest has tried to fill.  I need to keep working on it but I’m pleased with the infrastructure of this new template.

I love this recent post by our neighbor. I need to think about what the priorities are for me & am copying it here so I remember.

“Parenting can be rather like that. You head out with an idea of where you want to end up, but with no detailed map, no well-marked trail. You figure out the details as you come across them. The essentials are good observational skills, common sense, resourcefulness, the ability to stay calm when you find yourself in a bad situation, and a willingness to either re-route or muddle through when the landscape becomes difficult.

Where I think people get lost — and I could be wrong but I’ve seen it happen a lot — is in failing to define clearly enough where they want to end up. Saying you want a happy kid is like saying you want to head east. It’s too vague. If you say you want your child to be thoughtful of others, have good coping skills, know the difference between joy and pleasure, be strong enough to withstand a goodly amount of peer pressure, and have a rich spiritual life, your odds of having him arrive at 3pm at the large pine tree next to the stream in the cleft between those two hills five miles to the southeast are much better.”

Ah Apple I still love you. One of my favorite ads of all time.