Last night, my sister-in-law and I had an early New Year’s Eve celebration.  We had a  fire in her fireplace with real wood, no Duraflame logs this time and we burned up little pieces of paper with things we don’t want to take into the New Year.  We threw away things like “lies, isolation, bad feelings, worshiping the wrong things.”  While we kept the words and ideas we’d like to bring into 2009.  We held onto “faith, communication, honesty and humor,” along with many other good words and ideas.   It was healing, theraputic and we spent alot of the time talking about situations that represented the words before tossing them into the flames getting rid of the old ways and welcoming whatever the New Year brings us.  This last week of the year, I hope you too can think about ways you can get rid of the old (stagnant or bad) and bring in the exciting, new changes that await us all.

Please feel free to share how you plan on celebrating the close of 2008 and the welcoming of 2009!  I’d love to hear your ideas.

Christmas Lights

 Rainbows

(photo courtesy of  C.T. Bowens -but I think I was there (Moorpark, CA)

and Fireworks!

Too bad my friend, Larry, already took the name “Lunar Larry,” because I would love to be called “Lunar Linda.”  As you may have guessed, I am in love with the moon and am looking forward to viewing it tonight.  Enjoy!

Click her for information about the Largest Moon of 2008

Last night I thought about discussing with Matthew the possibility of my ex-husband or I dating other people.  My intuitive son has read my mind many times before, so really I shouldn’t be so surprised by our conversation.  Sometimes I’ll be thinking about what to make for dinner en route to picking him up from daycare.  “Hmm, maybe we’ll have tacos tonight.” Within seconds of getting in the car Matthew will say, “Can we have tacos for dinner?”  I usually tell him, he read my mind.

Yesterday, I thought a bit about how to approach the subject and decided to start with, “Mom loves love and God is love.”  These seven words were met with, “I don’t want a stepfather.”  “WHAT?” I laughed.  The conversation continued with me reminding him he already has a father.  His answer to that was, “Well just don’t get married.”  Mind you, I haven’t even mentioned potentially dating and my eleven year old is doling out advice on love.  Needless, to say, I dropped the subject pretty quickly and thought if I ever need to bring it up again, all I’ll have to do is “think” about it and he’ll just pick up the thoughts.

Check it out - Charlene Ross, my very first guest blogger, was published in skirt! magazine.  She’s an inspiration and I’m so very proud to know her.  Here is the article

As some of you know, I love to drink Yogi Green Tea, from Trader Joe’s, not only because it’s oh, so delicious but because each tea bag comes with a thought provoking quote.  I love to sip my tea while pondering the message.  Tonight, the quote was, “The universe is the stage on which you dance, guided by your heart.”  It made me think about my heart and my heart’s desires.  Sometimes in the past, my heart has led me down the wrong path and I wish I listened to wisdom and not my deceitful heart.  “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?  I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10)

In today’s pop psychology people are told “follow your heart,” “if it feels good, do it,”  but I believe things can “feel” great yet still be wrong.  I really love the idea of the universe being our stage, I love the analogy of dancing for living but if I were to improve this quote, I’d say be guided by Love, with a capital L, Divine Love.  I know for me Divine Love will never lead me in the wrong direction, God will “search me…and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts.” (Ps. 139:23)

The more I trust, the better I understand I’m being led or guided by the best “dance” instructor there is and yes, the dance is a beautiful one.