New Year's Resolution

I made one New Year's resolution many years ago that I've been able to keep - just one.

That was to make no more New Year's resolutions.

Does that mean there is nothing about me that I intend to change?

Do I want to loose the extra weight I carry around? Do I want to become a better person?

Do I want to strive to do more to help my fellow human being in this world?

Of course I do!

I just no longer wait until one particular day each year to try to change something about myself in a positive way.

No one knows with 100% accuracy what will happen tomorrow.

We can plan, certainly. We can schedule. But none of us "KNOWS" what tomorrow will bring - or even the next hour.

So if I truly wish to make a change in myself, I have the moment right in my hands. This very moment, today!

Now.

Each day, each moment brings us a fresh new opportunity as pristine as the moment that occurred at midnight local time on New Year's Day.

Why wait until the turning of the calendar to allow myself that opportunity and let all the others slip by?

Carpe Diem

Seize the Day

Seize the Moment

~ ESA

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

New Year's Resolution

I made one New Year's resolution many years ago that I've been able to keep - just one. That was to make no more New Year's resolutions.

Does that mean there is nothing about me that I intend to change?

Do I want to loose the extra weight I carry around? Do I want to become a better person? Do I want to strive to do more to help my fellow human being in this world?

Of course I do! I just no longer wait until one particular day each year to try to change something about myself in a positive way. No one knows with 100% accuracy what will happen tomorrow.

We can plan, certainly. We can schedule. But none of us "KNOWS" what tomorrow will bring - or even the next hour.

So if I truly wish to make a change in myself, I have the moment right in my hands. This very moment, today!

Now.

Each day, each moment brings us a fresh new opportunity as pristine as the moment that occurred at midnight local time on New Year's Day. Why wait until the turning of the calendar to allow myself that opportunity and let all the others slip by?

Carpe Diem

Seize the Day

Seize the Moment

~ ESA

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

New Year's Eve Tradition

There is a tradition I have had the pleasure to share at one point in my life. While I was in college, I was dating a young man who's parents are from the Dominican Republic. In my family, New Year's Eve was a time for parties and friends; I was either babysat (as a child) or was the babysitter in my teen years. I had not experienced a "family" New Year's Eve tradition until this.

Just before midnight, the women in the family prepared the glasses. They were cheap plastic champagne glasses, but that did not matter. Somehow we needed to fit 12 grapes into the glasses and then fill them with the champagne. At midnight, everyone drank the champagne and ate the grapes in their glass.

There were 6 green grapes and 6 red grapes. It was explained to me that this represented the good luck and bad luck for the year. Whatever life hands them, they took the good with the bad and trusted that God will work it all out in the end.

What a wonderful thought to start the New Year.

- ESA

Greetings of the Season (Poem)

Regardless the holiday name,
Inclusive of the reason,
Wishing you Light, Love and Joy
This holiday season!!!


See November posts for Christmas stories --->

- ESA