on resolutions

My dear friend Dawn had several poignant thoughts for the new year. In fact, I want to steal her new year's resolutions and use them as my own. Her first resolution is to be more creative.

Mmm. When I read that, I felt a little surge of recognition. Yes! Me too! I want that new year's resolution. (Are there rules about this? Taking someone's new year's resolution for your own?) I generally don't believe in resolutions. Not formally anyway. The truth is I'm a little afraid of goals, because they stand a serious chance of being unmet.

But we should all aspire to something, shouldn't we? So, this year, I aspire to be more creative. Just like Dawn.

I don't know what that means yet. But I've actually said this very thing many times to Ben in the last year, and I still haven't done anything about it. Even though I'm fastidious and organized and my day job doesn't in any way speak to this, in my heart, I think I'm really a creative person, first and foremost. I have an almost physical need to be creative. I love the energy that comes with little visions and inventions. And I have a craving for output. Which is probably why I've been cooking like my life depends on it for the past year. It's the closest to creative I have in my every day right now.

What will this look like? I have no idea.

But here's to a creative new year.