just keep dreaming

 

My friend Joe says that all things organic have their time, and then they die. Including blogs.  I've tossed that thought around for a year or two, almost caving in to it's truth.  It is indeed the truth, that all things organic eventually pass on.  I've struggled at times with the thought of leaving this organic little space behind, time and time again.  Leaving it to sit like a ghost in an old abandoned home.    

However I cannot.  Abandonment bores me, you see.  For there is absolutely nothing intriguing about it, and infact I find it quite a cowardly trait.  I refuse to be that person. So 'the dreaming Press', you and I are embarking on a new year together, and I'm entering a new decade-so we'll grow old together shall we?   I'm sure we can overcome any obstacles thrown at us.  Writers block.  Photographers block. (Believe me, there is indeed such a thing!) Inspiration block. We'll just keep swimming.

Moving on to today's business, Christmas was probably the best one we ever had. My betrothed and I wondered how we managed to pull off such a fantastic holiday.  Maybe we are just getting organized. My parents made the most incredible Christmas feast we've ever eaten and we had such fun over there too. Second, one of my gifts this year was a chocolate house, complete with a chocolate fenced yard, chocolate walkway, white chocolate icicles hanging from the roof and chocolate people representing everyone in my immediate family including the dog-from a friend of mine.  I promised her I'd take a photo but in truth all the photos I took were in bad light and didn't turn out so well.  It was one of my favourite gifts this year because it was one that took time and effort and love to produce.  {The very best kind of gifts indeed.}

Tomorrow the girls and I are heading out to get the ingredients to bake bread.  By this time tomorrow I hope to post excellent results from this little heartfelt venture.  {Wish me luck!}

Lastly, every muscle in my body aches to no end-December was long and a lot of work.  So I cannot express to you how thankful I am that we decided not to open Tuesday morning, and we are taking an extra day off to enjoy our holiday with the family. I see video games, photography, and caramel macchiatos in my future! Maybe the extra day off will help me relax enough to plan out some projects for 2011.  I love planning, don't you? Or maybe I'll shop.  There may be great sales happening, I'll grab that caramel macchiato, and just walk and people watch until something catches my fancy.

xoxo

 

Comments

[Donna]

Wherever you decide to be, that's where you will find me as well. xo

[shelagh]

Lovely to have a break!
Wishing you lots of good things in 2011 xo

[margie]

lovely to hear about such a lovely holiday experience. i think a coffee shop is calling my name as well.

[Debi]

i am so glad you will still be here - or wherever you choose. (i am being selfish when i am glad you are here so i can find you.) i know this feeling. i struggled this summer, mary gone, maggie now gone, and i felt perhaps emma tree should follow, felt perhaps it only existed to document the ends of their lives, though, of course, i hadn't known it at the beginning. but like you, i felt it was the coward's way out. and so, bad days were talked about and also the good days and, at the end of the year, i am here still, and glad for it. you will be also. let us see what happens in this new year. together.

xoxo