A word for the year

Hello!

Welcome again to 2018. I’m saying it
again because I’ve spent the last 3 weeks recovering from the wicked
flu that’s going around, and I am still not quite at 100. I’m getting
there. It feels like the year is just now getting started for real.

I liked my elephants so well I made a
painted version. I’m sure this won’t be their last appearance.

I’m sure you’ve heard about about
having a word of the year or maybe even chosen some yourself over the
years.

I usually forget mine after a month or
two. I don’t even think I had one last year. A couple years ago I
chose ‘adventure’. I am not certain I had many that year, maybe
because I forgot to.

But this year I have a word I can’t
forget! If you haven’t guessed by now it’s Create.

I chose this not so much because I need
a reminder that I should be creating, this I know. But this word is
a verb, meaning action.

That’s right, it’s a reminder to myself
to chose action over inaction, every single day. To create
something, anything, and there are many forms our creations take
beyond the strictly artistic. Even our lives themselves we are
creating every day with our choices to act or not act. Yes, our
lives are our biggest creations, maybe worth remembering.

So this is my reminder to choose the
good actions and creations, to work towards what I really want to
have. And to choose them little by little through everyday actions.