Say Good-bye and Get Ready...New Year is Here

Douglas Hamilton, Unexpected meeting with Tiger (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"There will be unexpected opportunities to weigh and, perhaps, to grasp." 

January 1, 2013 
This day's beginning includes a reminder-to-self to help raise the likelihood of unexpected opportunities in this new year.  Crossing paths with a tiger would be exciting and definitely unexpected. It might require  travel to India! [Aren't there tigers there?]

Meanwhile, what can I recommend for today?

• Make a list of your five (5) most memorable events of 2012. 

• Note, for each, its memorable effect or meaning, to you. 

    You might consider doing this with a friend or loved-one, who will make a list too, of course. Reserve private time to share the list, if you want to do that, with other(s) making their own personal list. 

This new year has begun well for me. There was prayer with a loved one soon after midnight. Waking up a bit earlier than usual this morning, I enjoyed two cups of coffee and Texas toast with strawberry jam. 
Lucie-doggie had to go out. Now, to get ready for movie downtown that my hubby has bought tickets for, to see mid-afternoon. 

     Then, later I will make my list per the above items to share and reflect on out loud...before a fire....  

It's 2013!
     

"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing, and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."

Dwight David Eisenhower (President of the USA 1953-1961)