Hey all!
I'm back. Life has been pretty busy but I won't bore you with excuses. I'm really going to try and do this blogging thing again-for real. I recently read, "Wouldn't Trade Nothing For My Journey Now" by Maya Angelou, cover to cover-it was that good. The premise  of the tiny book is observations and life advice from the one and only Maya Angelou. I love hearing the advice that people have acquired based on the life they have lived-we all learn along the path of life and a lot of the time we learn from other's lessons if we choose to apply it to our own life-or heck, if we choose to apply the lessons that life has taught us to our own lives...often times we have to learn our own lessons a couple times for them to stick.

This passage in particular really stuck with me so I thought I would share:

Living life as an art requires a readiness to forgive. I do not mean that you should suffer fools gladly, but rather remember your own shortcomings, and when you encounter another with flaws, don't be eager to righteously seal yourself away from the offender forever. Take a few breaths and imagine yourself having just committed the action which has set you at odds. 

     Because of the routines we follow we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. We leave our homes for work, acting and even believing that we will reach our destinations with no unusual event startling us out of our set expectations. The truth is we know nothing, not where our cars will fail or when our buses will stall, whether our places of employment will be there when we arrive, or whether, in fact, we ourselves will arrive whole and alive at the end of our journeys. Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

     Life seems to love the liver of it. Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.  

My goal for 2015? Live life as an adventure, the good and the less desirable, all an adventure for me to live and love!

Did you make any resolutions this year? Is anyone still reading this? haha...no, really?