Ahh, January is here and this has always been my least favourite month. When I was a little girl, my Mother used to keep me in for most of this month, as she always said I needed to hibernate!
Apparently I would stay in warm and snug and do creative things until my birthday at the end of the month. Then I would leap up, put on my new, gorgeous frock and be ready for my party and for the rest of the year I would be a little dynamo!
I don’t actually think that much has changed and if it were at all possible, I would be doing much of the same today!
I looked back at last year’s blog and I wrote about creating a mood board. I actually created two, one for health, travel and home and one for my spiritual growth and creativity. I am really surprized how much I have achieved, in ways that I didn’t envision at all.
One thing I really wanted was a dedicated workshop, rather than an office, where I could experiment and create. I thought I would have to move or rent somewhere and have been looking for a long time, but it turned out to be right here and the builders managed to finish just before Christmas! It’s FAB and I have spent many happy hours sorting and transferring all of my treasured ‘stuff’ into it. With under floor heating and a great view, I am hoping to spend many happy hours developing ideas and just being, not something I do too well.
I spent the New Year in Tynemouth and it really snowed. On first day of the year, I was having a snowball fight on the beach – amazing!
This last week I have been snowed-in and ill with a chest and throat infection. Looking out of the window at the snow filled garden and knowing that I just can’t go anywhere, has done me a power of good and not only am I on the mend but I have had lots of time to think, read and explore possibilities!
Angela phone me and I was telling her about the last Jonnie Walker show on Radio 2 (he has been filling in since Terry Wogan left) and how I love the way he introduces spiritually to his shows and on ‘pause for thought’ there had been a reference to It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Edmund Hamilton Sears (1849).
Angela then rang back and sang it to me and I had never realised that it was all about Angels. One line in particular sums up for me what the beginning of the year has been about and I hope that you make time in 2010 to listen to your Angels as well!
“The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the Angels sing”