New Year's Wishes For Us All

Ta daaaaa! Clang! Clang! Clang! Everyone up--it's 2007! Time to wake up and come alive! The Earth needs us, the future generations need us, we need us to care more deeply, be more bold, show our love more freely! May we actively support one another in our efforts to create the world we want. In our dear friend Lisa Wartinger's words: "May all of our intentions and actions bring hope and peace to our world in the coming year!" And in the words of the ever-inspiring Jelaluddin Rumi:

BEGIN

This is now. Now is. Don't postpone
till then. Spend the spark of iron

on stone. Sit at the head of the table.
Dip your spoon in the bowl. Seat yourself

next to your joy and have your awakened soul pour wine.
Branches in the spring wind,

easy dance of jasmine and cypress.
Cloth from green robes has been cut from pure

absence. You're the tailor settled
among his shop goods, quietly sewing.