[A few] Lessons Learned in '09

Thursday, February 25, 2010

This is a hodgepodge list I wrote a while ago about a few lessons I had (and have hopefully begun to learn) in '09.

-I am a human. Humans are relational and communal beings-->I am meant for COMMUNITY. Some of the sweetest experiences are all the sweeter because they're shared.
-LETTER writing is both lovely and undervalued. Personally I communicate, if not more clearly, more freely with pen and paper.
-LOVE. I've learned a lot about loving others. What does loving this person, this unique individual look like, sound like, and feel like?
-LIVE fully into this moment.
-Be fully engaged and INVESTED here and now.
-I still claim to be only a COFFEE enthusiast, but it does drastically and immediately improve my quality of being.
-POETRY improves life. There should be more of it.
-CONCERTS are always worth it. Always.
-KNITTING is great! I'm not so great at it...yet.
-Vanilla or caramel rooibos TEA is divine and my favorite.
-I am not a homework (or work) machine; that does not drive me. CREATING, CULTIVATING, and PASSIONS drive me. I am much more alive when aware of a purpose.
-Life is neither a tragedy nor a fairy-tale, instead it is a COMEDY. The ending is the same as a fairy-tale but it is a tragedy before the end. Providence is ever moving and working.
-God has a sense of HUMOR.
-MUSIC, art, and dance can express for the soul what words fall short, or even fail, to express.
-Life is worth living and I want to LIVE it.
-One cliché I'll allow: live, LAUGH, love.
-No should of's or could of's. Don't SHOULD on yourself.
-Be the kind of person you want to be, living the kind of life you aspire to live. Go CONFIDENTLY and intentionally in the direction you are led.