Happy New Year, Pigeons!

Dearests,

I have a pot of baked beans in the oven filling the house with indescribably delicious fragrance. The house is a Clutterama and there’s laundry to do and all sorts of people on my concerned pastor’s heart. But we face a new year and there’s a lot of excitement in that new possibility and the opportunity to say goodbye to any dust from 2012 that we’d like to shake off our sandals.

I think I might actually pick up a bottle of my favorite bubbly and go to a party tonight. I can’t remember the last time I went to a New Year’s Eve party. I like to stay off the roads and hunker down with neighbors. But today, maybe I’ll brave the roads and do the Festivity Thing. Might be good for me.


I don’t like champagne very much but Schramsberg is a delicious indulgence!

What about 2012 would you like to consign to the flame? I’m going to name three deep things and three superficial things:

Deep Things:
1. Guilt for not rescuing people. Like Dana Carvey used to say in his impression of George W. Bush, “not gonna do it!”
2. Minimizing something deeply upsetting. No more waving important things off with an airy, “I’m okay!” Sure, I’m okay. But even okay gals need to seek extra support when traumatic things happen to them.
3. Getting over-tired to the point where I mistake exhaustion for hunger. Yea, still working on this!

Superficial Things:
1. Guilt over not keeping up better with clutter in the house. Who cares?
2. Just suck it up and get a new camera already, for god’s sake. My trusty old Kodak breaks all the time.
3. No more guilt about buying expensive protein powder and supplements for morning smoothie. Just put it in the budget. It’s a legitimate health expense.

How about you? Kissing anyone good at midnight?

Blessings in 2013, my lovelies!

Here’s last year’s New Year’s Eve column, just fer fun!

4 Replies to “Happy New Year, Pigeons!”

  1. Phillip Hewett used to do a service on New Year’s Eve with a fire in a deep chalice – you. Plus write on pieces of paper anything you wanted to get out of your life – lovely music – readings etc. – he was originally English so I guess it was a bit like the Watchnight Services in the Anglican churches – it worked – I am sure if you write what you wrote to us on paper and go into your yard and burn the paper you’ll feel immeasurably lighter – good wishes for 2013

  2. Doing this on my iPad – but I think my post is still understandable – very annoying to have one’s work “corrected” by a machine

  3. Happy New Year, no partying for me (I gave up trying to keep s.o. awake at 9:00pm.) Here’s to a 2013 rich and full and bright.

    Consigning to the year departed:
    a) some very deep-rooted insecurity junk (which I am disassembling, and looking forward to getting rid of, or at least having it down to sane and manageable);

    b) guilt about prioritizing self-affirming things ahead of stuff I “should” be doing;

    c) keeping clothes that don’t fit because I’m too cheap to buy things that do.

  4. I presided my first ever New Years Eve wedding and it was AWESOME! There were 19 of us gathered in the living room of the bride and groom. We laughed, we cried, we knew the incredible journey these two had taken over the past six years to be together.

    It was absolutely amazing. And at the end of it I was absolutely exhausted. But I’m so glad I agreed to do it.

    As far as what I want to get rid of…

    1. Self doubt.
    2. Clutter – physical, emotional and spiritual.
    3. Energy vampires…I really need to cut them loose, and not feel guilty about it.

    Blessings and peace be with you in all you do.

    Pax,

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