my intentions for 2011

A long time ago, my friend Jessie and I started brainstorming, drawing, and writing out our goals for each new year.  There were not exactly resolutions, but more like goals from a strengths perspective and there were several different categories for which to fit each goal. We started doing this over 10 years ago! (Can you believe that, Jessie??)  Sometimes, we worked at a tea house, or we discussed it over the phone, west coast to east coast, and once we brainstormed on a plane.  I have introduced my friend Laura to this new year's ritual as well (in Mexico right??).  Some years, I create a visual work with my goals and hang it somewhere so that I can glance at it often throughout the year. Sometimes, Jessie and I send monthly postcard updates on how we were doing with our goals. 

It is about this time, that I look at last years' goals and start thinking about the new year.  Last year, I wrote about going into my second year of living with cancer and how that impacted my goals.  Now, that it has been 2 full years of living with cancer, I am thinking of how I will enjoy and live my third year with happiness despite this awful disease.  I guess time does really help, because each year gets a tiny bit easier. I will always have really bad days but the everyday is much easier than it was last year and WAY easier than it was going starting that first year.  Phew! 

So I am off to brainstorm for 2011.  Maybe I will post a few things I come up with here!