Happy New Year, and Welcome to 2011!
I wonder at what all the different things you may or may not do on this significant date, and thought to share some of what I like to do…..feel free to comment on any neat things you’d like to share about your ‘rituals’ for the start of a new chapter, I would love to here them!
New Years Eve is usually very private for me, and I sit and write all the multitude of things that I am so Grateful for over the Passing Year….Amazing people that have graced my life, all the horses that have shared their time, souls and knowledge with me, my family, the dogs, this beautiful land we get to call home, the sage, the pines and the rocks, my truck and trailer, all the beautiful tack, the sage, my health, my crazy cat , Taos, ( Yes! I have a cat!) for her snuggles, those great guys who keep the roads plowed, and starry nights with hot chocolate….and dreams.
Then I write out Goals for this fresh New Year….and these are very special and I highly recommend this little practice, because, just like training logs, it helps track where we have been, where we wish to go and just how often we DO achieve our goals, and to give you a little hint?
Dream Big! The Universe and everything in it is UNLIMITED!
And in case you hadn’t yet noticed, it LOVES to show off, grant wishes and generally express in a Grand Way all it can be. Think of it this
way. 
You know how great it feels (!) to give the just right, most hoped for, long wished for PERFECT gift to the one you love? yeah. It’s kinda like that! Now think if you had NO idea what to give your most loved one because they never asked, or they 
just said what they didn’t like or they kept saying, no, no I don’t want anything, not little ole me! Well how much fun s that to give too?????? Get my point? To me, the Universe ( God, Source) IS love and therefore expressing Love is it’s Pure Nature….so give her a hand! 🙂
I would also like to share with you one of my most cherished poems. It is actually a Navajo Blessing Prayer, and it says all that really needs to be said, and is a large part of my personal goals for this year……….Enjoy and be Blessed beyond your wildest dreams…
Walking in Beauty
In beauty I walk
With beauty before me I walk
With beauty behind me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty around me I walk
It has become beauty again
Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me
I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.
I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.
I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.
I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.
In beauty all day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With dew about my feet, may I walk.
With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk.
With beauty below me may I walk.
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
My words will be beautiful.
( The photos are of Sage in the Sage, Becca and I at the Martin Black Clinic in September, my drive home at Christmas (( Sage took the photos whilst I drove):) and Indy in the two-rein.)
A beautiful poem Stef. One to keep close