{"id":107,"date":"2015-12-26T10:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dirtfarmchronicles.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-12-26T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T19:23:37","slug":"reflection-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dirtfarmchronicles.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Reflection Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blessing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

I love blessings<\/p>\n

I love that we have these times of year and occasions in life that call for them
\nGreetings
\nBirthdays
\nGoings
\nNew beginnings<\/p>\n

May the road rise up to meet you
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

With the new year there are always these lovely blessings to anticipate with hope and joy
\nAnd often, I have looked to them as a sort of talisman because the preceding year was so rough
\nWhen I saw this one I thought it was so delightful and had one of those
\n“Oh! Wouldn’t it be lovely if it worked out that way this next year!” thoughts<\/p>\n

And as I reflected,
\nI realized, that as hard as this year has been
\n(and make no mistake – it has been HARD!)
\nI realized that 2015 had already given me this list<\/p>\n

Magic and Dreams<\/strong> were pretty scarce for so much of the year
\nBut the fall brought back the joy of my salvation
\nand an end to the daily despair that rent great, secret sobs
\nNew friends that welcome me and my children
\nand the resurrection of a friend I thought gone forever
\nTo have some of those voids filled is surely magical and dreamy<\/p>\n

Good Madness<\/strong>
\nYes. And some somewhat frightening realizations
\n(or perhaps reaffirmations?)
\nof how far I actually am willing to go
\nIt surely is madness of the best, most dangerous kind<\/p>\n

Reading Some Fine Books<\/strong>
\nYes.
\nStill reading The Cellist of Sarajevo
\nand it is a fine novel
\nAnd there were others, though I cannot recall their titles<\/p>\n

Kiss Someone who thinks I’m Wonderful<\/strong>
\nYes.
\nMore than one someone
\nand a couple I thought were wonderful as well
\nIt is a heady thing to realize that someone thinks you’re wonderful
\nand a grave thing to realize you don’t share the depth of feeling
\nsuch responsibility toward tenderness<\/p>\n

Make Some Art<\/strong>
\nYes.
\nI made some beautiful edits during my short term freelancing
\nI have hand-written some beautiful letters and actually sent them
\nI am writing purposefully and much more often
\nI have helped make souls blossom
\nI have sung with people for larger purposes
\nAnd played piano for other’s art, too<\/p>\n

Somewhere in the Year, Surprise Myself<\/strong>
\nYes.
\nI went back to embrace the mantle of duty
\nI realized, and have begun articulating, that I will likely never get my daughter back
\nI am accepting what IS
\nI learned to ice skate
\nI have let people go I never thought I could or would
\nI bought tall boots that fit over my calves (!)
\nI found new love that isn’t killing me<\/p>\n

I am excited to see how this next year unfolds
\nto see what new books
\nand beautiful souls
\nand dangerous madness
\nand wonderful skills
\nemerge<\/p>\n

May you find these things in the year just past as well
\nand if they are hard to find
\nor small
\nMay the next year magnify and add to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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