A new year

We’ve had our last meal of the year:  Bobby Flay’s salmon with mustard and brown sugar glaze, (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/salmon-with-brown-sugar-and-mustard-glaze-recipe/index.html), farro (my new favorite grain), cauliflower, and bubbly.   Later, we’ll have Julie Hasson’s rice pudding, (vegan and seriously good), http://www.juliehasson.com/2011/10/old-fashioned-creamy-rice-pudding/.

We’re staying in tonight, having family time.  I don’t know if any of us are making resolutions.  I have before, but I usually don’t.  Here are just a couple thoughts I have about things that might be worthwhile resolving to do.

Do something kind for someone else each day.

Do something kind for yourself each day.

Do something for your community.

Forgive yourself and forgive others.

Cherish your family and friends.  Spend quality time with them.  Talk with them and listen to what they say.

Dream a dream or two.  If you don’t reach them, don’t feel that you’ve failed.  Either try again or dream a new dream and attempt to reach it.  Only feel bad if you don’t try.

Have fun.

Learn something new as often as you can.

Eat healthily and do things that make/keep you healthy.

Look at the many blessings you have rather than at what you don’t have or at what someone else has.

Tomorrow is a new year, the perfect time to make new beginnings…an empty slate, upon which you can write whatever you want.  Go out and write on it and don’t be afraid to erase when necessary.

A happy and blessed 2013 to you and yours!!

janet