MANTRA

As I reflect over the past year and welcome in the New Year, I think of all I have accomplished, and I am blessed to say that it has been unsurmountable! I’ve done so much this year. I’ve been steadfast in my deployment of my dreams and stealthy in my completion. I’d like to say that it has been on purpose, but yes and no. I’ve felt the need to purposefully experience every second of life and selfishly hold on to my thoughts, my feelings, my innate desire to share. Captures of the moment swiftly faded with each breath. It’s been as if Life knew it was time for me to receive. To hold on to something that only my eyes will see, that only my cheeks would feel the warmth of, or the experience of my hands drying the tears that rested in the corners of my eyes.

Silent revelry. Surrendering to every ounce of my life’s experience. I have stolen every ounce of seconds, reveled in every smell and feel. Every milestone I tucked and hid within me. Every tragedy tattoos my heart.

But I breathe a forceful breath! A loud sigh for the past year’s path. I walked it! I ran it! I danced along it! I crawled over it! I made it across!!!! I did it!

Happy New Year!