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Wishcasting Wednesday

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Today’s Wishcasting Wednesday question from Jamie Ridler is: “What is your wish for the New Year?”

I am spending this week doing my own “Review, Reflect, and Resolve,” cobbling together pieces and parts of various annual review and resolutions strategies, worksheets, and practices from around the web. I am adding pages to the front and back of my new 2012 Weekly Planner to formally record the process, and to have something I can keep with me throughout next year, as a reminder and an inspiration. There are lots of personal wishes there, just for me and my life, made solid by the mindful and measured way I’ve put them together, and through my resolve. So my wish for the New Year isn’t a personal one, although it is for me as well.

This New Year, I wish for all of us a letting go and leaving behind of the habits, emotions, expectations, fear, self-hate, stories, grudges, hurts, attachments, addictions, misery, grief, suffering, thoughts, memories, and even the hopes that no longer serve us. We will let them know that they are not invited into 2012.

We will release them and be free.

Picture by Erik Sagen

This is my wish for the New Year, for freedom and a fresh start, for all of us.

P.S. Right after I published this post, I checked my email and there was this image from gapingvoid.com. The artist, Hugh MacLeod (one of my favorites), explains that “So much human suffering is tied to hanging on to things; material, emotional, or otherwise…If you’re unhappy, nine times out of ten it’s because you’re clinging onto something…Nine times out of ten, happiness and letting go are synonymous.” So, I suppose that means the secret wish under the wish is for our shared happiness in the New Year.

art by Hugh MacLeod

Wishcasting Wednesday: What is your deepest wish?

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My deepest wish is to live a wholeheARTed, full-time writing life.

To me, this means getting regularly published, and being paid enough for my writing that I could quit my “day job.” Maybe I’d still teach a class now and again, and design a few websites, but I’d do it by choice and on my schedule, based on my own interest.

More specifically, living this life (which, in truth, I am already living as much as I can) means: Waking in the morning and writing. Taking a break for a walk with my dogs, for yoga and meditation, shower and a meal, then back to research and writing. Another break midday for another walk and meal, then back to more writing until dinner.  Ending the day by reading or watching TV, and relaxing with the boys.

Some days, I’d go to the library to research and study and write, or take my notebook or laptop to a coffee shop to work, or meet a friend at a cafe to talk about living wholeheARTed lives.

Other days, I’d take the dogs hiking, or do laundry or other chores during breaks from writing. And some days I’d read or watch movies all day and nap, or sit in a chair in the sun in the backyard and stare at my toes. I’d spend entire days in my pajamas. Other times, I’d take a whole day off from work altogether to rest or do something entirely different. I’d honor and care for myself, my amazing and lovable self, whose heart is so wide open and whose voice is so honest and true, and who has so much to give.

I’m willing to do the work. I write every day first thing, post to my blog, read and research and study. I carry a notebook and pen with my everywhere I go. On the weekends, I spend 8-12 hours a day working–reading, researching, studying, and writing. I’m willing to work hard, and the love for this work has never wavered, the desire has never left me. It is who I am and what I want and what I have to offer, and I have faith it will happen.

It is my deepest wish.