2008
I know it’s a little early to be talking about next year, but as much as I wanted to write another post, this one keeps thrusting its way into my consciousness, demanding to be written.
On and off during the last year, I’ve written about an impending sense of something good about to happen, but not knowing what that might be. Well, fact is, I still don’t, not completely, although there are some wonderful things in the works I can’t share just yet. Lately, I’d say the last two to three weeks, that feeling has been getting stronger and stronger - I feel like the wheels have been set in motion and great things are headed my way.
I think, no, I know, that things are going to come together next year for me in ways I don’t expect that are extraordinarily good. I can’t tell you why exactly - I don’t have anything in writing that says this and that and the other is going to happen and it will be great. What I do have is a feeling, a certainty and a knowledge that next year is going to be a really special year for me, possibly the best one I’ve ever had up to that point.
Let me tell you at least part of it - I will be testing, and getting my black belt. I firmly believe this. I thought it might have been possible last year at this time that I would get my black belt this year, but this time I know it’s going to happen, because I’m going to make it happen. The next module for my massage class starts in March - I’m really looking forward to that. Once my elbows have healed up a little more, I’m going to start doing some massages in the dojo again, get back into practice, start studying again.
The last thing I want to tell you about is my book/photography project. It’s going to be a bit of work, but I’ll finally be able to consider myself an artist, rather than a hack who occasionally snaps a decent picture and writes something actually worth reading. I may put teasers for my work out here from time to time, so you can see the progress.
That’s not all, but as I said, that’s all you get to find out at the moment.
2008 - The Year of Phagos… I like the sound of that.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
There is something magical in reading the writing of someone whose words could be describing the innermost breathing of my own heart, so close is their meaning to my own hopes and so confidently does their intention entwine with my own. I too have the strongest sense of certain destiny as well as a complete readiness for everything the future holds. I have such precious hopes for the coming year; hopes of happenings so vital to my heart and essential to my spirit that it is unthinkable that my hopes would not be realized. It occurs to me that you may not recognize to what extent your goals are already yours and to what extent that which you hope for in the coming year has been a long time coming. You could not get a blackbelt without the physical and spiritual work you’ve already done. Your photography project will be the expression of a talent that already exists in you. I strongly suspect that everything you want is already yours. At this point, like the blackbelt and the book, you have only to want the outcome to make it so.