happy nude year January 05, 2009

As much as I love the holidays, I can honestly say, that the first few weeks into the new year, make me incredibly happy. I feel like everything ahead is a blank slate, so ripe with possibility, that I can barely contain my enthusiasm and optimism. Make a million dollars this year? Sure! NO problem. Get up at 6am and go to hot yoga every day? Certainly, and why not? Become a good cook, an acrobat, an animal rescuer, a novelist, an animator, and join an orchestra? Of course. Certainly. All possible! Go forth!

Judging by the commercials that ramp up in January, (Quit smoking in three hours! Hula hoop diet! Make more money selling pyramids! Get buns of steel to match your abs of gold!) I'm not the only one who has the fervor of a freed hamster when the new year begins. The trouble is of course, that I burn out rather quickly when the mountains I want to climb are steep (and by steep, I mean razor sharp cliffs lined with ice), and all I've packed is a handful of leftover Christmas chocolate to keep me going.

So this year, I'm doing my best to take my frantic excitement and goal setting and slice them into nice, simple day hikes. I'm planning on packing lots of nourishment ( a little trick that I learned from my friend Felicity) and lots of treats along the way (another trick that I learned from my friend Wendy), and hope that my plodding along, will take me somewhere I could not have even dreamed about during these first few days of post holiday bliss.

This time around, I hope to sit down and actually think about what it would take to get from point a to point b. And I hope to meet some fellow hikers along the way...maybe even around a campfire. Maybe there will even be smores. One can hope....

What say ye, want to come along?