The Password is: Health

It's a new year, so I've a new spot (in actuality an old spot that I've decided to occupy again) on the weird and wonderful internetz.

I've felt like writing again for a long time but finally have figured out just what I want to write about.  Okay, not that anyone needs an actual topic to run a blog on the internet but it kind of helps to have a bit more of a theme than "I feel like writing."

SO!

Three things contributed to the finding of this topic.

Thing the first:  I have always hated making New Year's resolutions.  They have always been a way for me to focus on how much I am failing at them.  I know, that sounds like so much fun I'm sure you can't believe that I don't enjoy it!
However, I mentioned to the fabulous boyfriend, STAG, that I really actually DO need to make some changes in my life and after discussing how angsty making these particular changes always makes me and how many times I've tried and not gotten to my desired result, he asks me if I've ever tried to work spiritually with these goals as well as in everyday life.

Well.  NO.

And isn't THAT just a brilliant idea!

You now know some of why I love this man so.

Soon after that I saw a "thing" floating around on a particular social network we all love to hate that instead of a specific resolution like "I resolve to get the oil changed in my car on time for all of 2012" one merely chooses a word like "maintenance".  And then one can simply apply that to one's life in any way one chooses for the year, including car maintenance.

The third thing happened while working with some of my dearest witchy friends on the local CUUPs group (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans).  We decided that this year, we were going to have an overarching theme for all of our rituals:  How Will You Weave Your Year?

And WHAMMO!  It all coalesced for me.  Thankfully, by the time the third thing happened I was already aware that the Multiverse was conspiring against me and was on the lookout for the smack upside the head so I was able to roll with it.

Here I am, then, with my word and my spiritual direction for weaving my year and my wee blog to talk about how that weaving is going and how that word is applying itself to me and my life.  I hope y'all enjoy the journey with me.  And, feel free to pick your own word and see what you can weave this year.  :)

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we outhg to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential"

-Ellen Goodman