For me, it is not what’s new for the new year, but what I will recycle and make new in 2022.
I’ll admit, 2021 was not the most productive year I’ve
had. Between trying to figure out how to live a normal life, in a crazy
situation, and then experiencing many life-changing situations, both sad and
happy, I had difficulty making my goals that I set out for myself last year.
For 2022, I’ve brought forward all that I planned and was excited about in 2021, in hopes of accomplishing them in 2022. That list includes both professional and personal goals. For several years I have had on my list to join a local, non-profit organization that provides a meeting place and a list of activities for both teens and retirees. Last spring, I finally joined. The activities that interested me most were exercise classes, various art classes, and a writing group. Did I do any of them?
A BIG FAT NO!
So, what’s new for ’22, is to get myself
out of the house, with mask in place, and get to exercise class two days a
week, join the writing group, and explore some art classes that will definitely
take me out of my comfort zone. My sister was an artist. My grandmother was a
juried craftswoman, mostly in painting on tins and velvets. My grandfather
dabbled in painting, as did my mom. My daughter is an interior designer and a
floral designer. Me? I loved art when I was in school, and I took craft classes
as an adult and loved rug braiding, pottery, knitting, etc. But I never pursued
any of them beyond the adult education classes I took.
2022—here I come.
Time to get out of my comfort zone and learn a new craft. If only,
because it will challenge my creativity in a different way than writing. And by
doing so, my hope is to jumpstart my writing,
I’m convinced that if I can activate my creative brain
in other areas beside writing, that I might jumpstart my writing creativity, as
well. In other words, allow the light of creativity to shine through once more.
“It
is the light in the lantern which shows you the path,
not the lantern.”
from a Yogi Tea Bag
And that leads me to what I love…writing. Alas, 2021
was a bad year for me. I totally shut down. I missed most of my goals I set for
myself at the end of 2020, and I beat myself up over it. But hey…as I write
this, we are in the last few weeks in December and all of a sudden, my creative
juices are flowing through my brain and into my fingers. Time to take
advantage, pull all my 2021 goals forward, and kick up a dance of creativity
(both physical and mental) for 2022! And STOP with the I’m a failure self-talk.
The words of encouragement I have chosen to guide me for
2022 are:
Self-Forgiveness
and Looking Forward
What
are you going to do to move forward and find something new in ’22?
~ cottages to
cabins ~ keep the home fires burning ~
Delsora Lowe writes small town sweet and
spicy romances and contemporary westerns from the mountains of Colorado to the
shores of Maine.
Author of the Starlight Grille
series, Serenity Harbor Maine novellas, and the Cowboys of Mineral Springs series, Lowe has also authored short
romances for Woman’s World magazine.
Her new novella, The Love Left Behind, will release in late fall, 2020.
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