Happy Still Unemployed New Year

What an eventful, uneventful year! Many good things, other things, well, we call them challenges and I conquered every one so I’m proud of myself and hoping I will never have to go through any of that again.

The greatest changes this year have been the unexpected surprises that propelled me to give up in my life what wasn’t working and renew my purpose to write and finish my theater project and to make fruitful again my creative life. One of the things that helped me do that was losing my job last year and being able to collect unemployment which doesn’t really pay for anything but rent and a few bills but I’ve been able to get by. Then rethinking what I really wanted to do for work I was able to use the time to go back to school and get into a field that I’ve been interested in all my life, counseling. So I have many good things to look forward to in the new year that I hope will bear fruit because of all the hard work I’ve been able to do this past year. Where there’s danger there is opportunity, so the Chinese say and that is true.

Another major event was learning I had the added gifts of intuition and angelic guidance to help me contribute to my life purpose. Being on an intense spiritual path these last several years and especially in the last few years, has led me to open up many more areas of my life that I never knew I could use and that have existed for me all the time. I have been able to cultivate these gifts throughout the year and for myself which have been invaluable to my life and hopefully for others as well that I have spoken with and given guidance.

I was able to make music again, not just writing songs, but being able to play the piano and learn guitar and have the time to sing and make music every day. These are things I hardly ever made time for in the last ten years. What a shame.

And reading. I have indulged myself in every kind of genre, subject, and prose. I completed my goal of reading all six major Austen novels and enjoyed that immensely. I still have 18 books untouched and ten I’m in the middle of and one or two that I need to complete that I started several months ago but later on this week I will publish the list of books I read this year. It’s amazing. I haven’t read so much since…well, never. And this time of year I’m usually devouring four or five books because by the time I come back to Los Angeles, I get too busy to enjoy just reading and sitting for hours and finished a book. This has been so important for me to indulge myself in books this year. I felt this was a time of planting seeds and cultivating the soil so to speak.

The next big thing and the major, major event this year was an addition to my family. I can call myself a family now because I have Lilly. To think I almost missed having her because of my anxiety. I’m happy to say she’s been with me 3-1/2 months and she’s still alive and kicking and doing great. We took obedience classes together and she’s teaching me all about how to take care of her. She’s my buddy and I hate to leave her home at all. She’s the best thing in a long time to happen to me and I’m so grateful.

I’m grateful I passed another year in the pink of health. I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford insurance after this month but we’ll see. I’m grateful my family is also in the pink of health and my mother was able to visit me at the end of the year again, this is the third time consecutively, and we had a wonderful time. I’m grateful for all the help and support I’ve gotten this year from above and below and all the wonderful teachers in my life, both positive and negative.

My mother is fond of saying, “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken,” and I can see that. The trick is to keep going and keep reinventing yourself. Life is full of danger and opportunity and the key is to take care of the one with courage and intention while keeping alert for the other and having the courage and intention again to grab it. I think I finally get it. I hope and with hope for another wonderful year of great events and change. Live long and prosper. May the force be with me and you.

MM