Reflections of 2006

Moonbeam said...
I am giving myself permission to write both negative and positive reflections today, as long as it ends in a positive. I have been waiting for this grand inspiration of what I will do next. At this time last year I was sitting drinking coffee and the idea of Won-a-day just jumped out of me and there it was. It was one of those ideas that you just can't ignore no matter how hard you try. I have had a lot of fun looking for wonders in times of joy and in times of great suffering.

In the past year; two of my loved ones have become cancer survivors, my son has been diagnosed with a chronic medical condition or two, I have been through extremely strained and difficult times, I was temporarily layed off from the job that some days is the one thing that makes me feel like I can make a difference in our world and the latest tragedy which is not mine to share left me almost unable to regain my focus and believe,(and yes miracles do, did and will continue to happen). Yet just as I suspected even as I screamed inside there was always something that I could choose to notice and focus on. It did not make the hurt or pain go away but it put it in perspective and made it hard to allow the negative to become the source of energy.

In times of joy the wonders are easier to find, they seem more spectacular or the documenting of them is an easier process helping to compose them into language that flows and is fun and easy to read. It is also more likely that you do something to create them or pass them on rather than wait for them to happen

Ah ha! I found it, this year I want to act on wonders not just report on wonders. I don't have a clue how I will do it, oh well I never imagined that I could sit and write 367 post in a year either, yet I did manage to write not every single day, but an entry for every single day.

By the way...Thanks to Won-a-Day readers, I have had 4,991 page views over the past 12 months and the comments from others have often been one of my sources of excitement and wonder for the day.