New Years Resolutions
Normally I don’t buy into new years resolutions. I have always believed that we can’t just one day wake up and decide to be different. Instead we have to actively make behavior changes and continually grow each day when we wake up; however, this year I have made my ny resolutions based on this. With all of the darkness and sadness that filled 2011 for me I knew that coming into the new year I wanted to do one thing more than I had ever done before: trust myself and what my gut was telling me. I need to learn to listen to my feelings and trust that if my body is telling me something that it is usually right. I need to be more aware of my life and how my actions are shaping it. I can already feel the changes in my happiness levels and security with my decisions. I also decided that I do want to make resolutions, but not in the way that most people do. So I am dedicating this entire week to really thinking about what I want to do differently and how I am going to make those changes and go from there. Let me tell you it has been an incredibly freeing decision and I suggest all my friends try to do the same. I cannot wait to have an amazing year filled with joy, adventures, love and friends! Heres to a blessed new year for all of you as well!
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my
darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the
root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of
the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than
soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
...There is nothing more wonderful or humbling than one
of your best friends getting everything that she deserves.
Today my dear friend got engaged to not only the love of her
life, but her high school sweetheart and best friend. Today I am
thankful for so much and so blessed to know that true love
like there's does actually exist.
Today, young girls faith in love and fairytales come to life.
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” — Philip Pullman
Oh what I would give to be curled up in front of my christmas tree with a hot cup of cocoa reading.
If you ever need to have your faith in love reaffirmed or just feel like being reminded that true love really exists…
This is so horrible. This just shows the demand for increased awareness with how other countries and people affect our daily lives and vice versa. We all need to do our part and help out.
In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programs because of a catastrophic drop in donor funding.
The Global Fund, financed largely by governments, was set up 10 years ago as a ‘war chest’ to fight the spiralling AIDS pandemic and tackle malaria and TB, the other two infectious diseases that claim millions of lives each year in the developing world.
In many countries, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works alongside national health authorities who rely on the Global Fund support to deliver lifesaving treatment in their countries. These countries cannot pay the full amount needed to cover treatment costs for these three diseases. Last week’s announcement from the Global Fund has therefore caused widespread concern and some panic. Read more
Photo: Zimbabwe 2011 © Brendan Bannon
