With the new year brings thoughts on goal setting, new activities to try, places to go and changes to make. I've been doing a lot of reading on creative visualization and manifesting your desires the last few weeks. The picture is the top of a box I've decorated to put ideas, dreams, goals and wishes in. It's my "magic box." I painted it myself and although I'm not really a painter, I'm very proud of the palm tree. I hope that reviewing the contents will keep me focused on the things I want to accomplish this year. I'll keep you posted.

The theatre is still closed, so I have a lot of time on my hands to think and read. Perhaps I've been pondering too much because I've been writing what ever pops into my head without much thought and I may have pissed someone off with my ramblings. I'm working on being very honest with my feelings not only with myself but my friends and family as well. I've spent a lifetime keeping my mouth shut and not sharing what I really feel with others out of fear of rejection. No more. Nothing I've said was cruel or nasty, it may be I'm saying some things people don't want to hear or acknowledge. Anything I say truly comes from a place of love and not anger. Oh well, can't do anything about it now. Regardless, I love you all!

I have a birthday coming up next week. I'm not sure how I feel and I have no idea how to celebrate it. Friends and family have been asking what I want to do. Every year we end up going to dinner somewhere and usually have a good time, except last year. I had been to a restaurant with a friend on the Upper West Side that is very health conscious with vegetarian choices. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal so I thought it would be a good place to go, with something for everyone. It was a nightmare. The service was slow and disorganized and the food was terrible. I don't know what happened. But as usual, a family member got a little loud resulting in me wanting to slip under the table and disappear. Maybe that's the reason I'm so hesitant to come up with a plan this year. You can never please everyone. If I could do anything I wanted, I would hop on a plane to someplace warm with a beach and palm trees. Or maybe a cruise in the Bahamas...never been on a cruise before. Hey - a dream to put in my magic box!

So here I sit thinking about another birthday coming and going wondering how the year will go. Before I know it, another year will have passed by but not before I accomplish the things contained within the box....