Sunday, January 02, 2011

Welcome 2011

An old dead tree behind my house keeled over last night under the weight of snow. Just leaned down into the slope behind it, a bit like the old year coming to an end. Now we no longer have to decide, should we cut it or not? "It's a fire hazard" vs. "the woodpeckers love it." The woodpeckers have won, and the beetles and all kinds of other small things that can use a downed tree.

I'm not very good with resolutions, but visualizations I can handle. Here are a few things I'd like to visualize for this year ahead.
  1. a cleaned up, sorted out set of bookshelves
  2. a balance between work I have to do and work I want to do
  3. good books to read
  4. perspectives on story, slanted ones welcome
  5. the sense to let a tree deal with time in its own way and gratitude for being there when it does
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5 comments:

  1. Many blessings to you in the New Year, Uma! I hope to see you in the near future. Miss you!

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  2. Then here's to balance, perspective, good sense, good books, and sorted out bookshelves. Hope you have a wonderful 2011, Uma. May all your visualizations come true.

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  3. I, too, am trying to let the tree in my backyard make up its own mind. I just hope when it lies down it's not onto my house.

    Most happy new year to you, Uma!

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  4. Thank you Cyn and Nandini. Cyn I'm going to do my darnedest to see you in the near future! Nandini, yours too--stay on the trail, sister! P.D.H, that's the trick, isn't it, to judge the slope of the land. Everything depends on that. You may be interested in the essay I wrote for PaperTigers on the subject, linked from this blog post: http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/uma-krishnaswami-returns-to-essential-questions/

    In case that doesn't work here's the tiny URL:
    http://tinyurl.com/2932r8c

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