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Nikki Hardin
Founder and Publisher of Skirt!. A native of Kentucky, I left home at 17 to elope with my high-school boyfriend. Twelve years later, divorced with three children and unskilled at almost everything, I started college at the age of 29. Earned a B.A. in literature from American University in 1976 and a...
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Truly Newly You

Nikki

Wednesday, January, 2, 2008

“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of last year.” Cervantes

Maybe you know the feeling...a new year rolls around, you make perfunctory resolutions, have Champagne at midnight, eat collards (yum) and blackeyed peas  (ugh) for luck and money and then go back to work  or school or doing the piled up laundry on January 2.  I don’t want  to start the year with yet another check list of self improvements, lists and goals. “Lose weight...go to the gym...be creative...fall in love...write a book.” Instead, this year I hope for an inner makeover, more light, more depth, more questions, more quests. Maybe it’s unrealistic and I will just fall into the dailiness of life all over again--picking up the dry cleaning, taking a vacation or two, starting projects and abandoning them, taking life for granted. And sure, we all have to fall into the quotidian now and then, but I hope I will discover a bird of Paradise or two by looking for new nests in new trees with new eyes. I hope that for you, too.

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Raven-Woman
Raven-Woman
Truly Newly You
Posted Wed, 06/25/2008 - 20:55
I so resonated with this blog. How many years I did the usual "resolutions thing"?? Today I think about where I'm at, how far I've come, and how far I can still go - if I so choose. And I don't wait for New Year to do this. Sometimes it's a monthly event, sometimes, weekly, and when my hormones allow, it's even daily!! But there are also times when I find I'm just plodding along in the mundane stuff of life. The huge difference about this today is that I just honour the fact that I need to be plodding - just for a little while at least:-). Thanks for a great read every month. I get so much joy from your front page writing. I usually read it out loud to staff and csutomers alike at my nail salon which is where I pick it up.