Naked New Year

The wife will love that intro!

We enter this world naked, covered with various embryonic fluids and various organic gunk.  Most of us likely were terrified, forcibly squeezed from the warm dark comfort of our mother's womb through an incredibly tight space.  Or, the dark comfort of our mother's womb was opened from above while some OB GYN yanked us from this peaceful place.  Either way, naked and coated as described, we get cleaned up and handed off to our parent or parents to face this life.

A New Year is sort of like a new birth.  Starting naked and covered in gunk, we have to clean it up, raise it, and shape it into our lives.  The traditional "resolutions" are made by many. I even have some myself.  Some words of encouragement as you make plans to meet your goals set in resolution for this Naked New Year:

1.  This quote was in today's comic strip The Family Circus, spoken by the character Dolly:  "Yesterday's the past, Tomorrow's the future, but Today's a gift.  That's why it's called the present."

2.   Selections from the Al-Anon credo:  

JUST FOR TODAY:  I will live through this day only.  I will not brood about yesterday or obsess about tomorrow.  I will not set far reaching goals or try to overcome all of my problems at once.  I know that I can do something for 24 hours that would overwhelm me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

JUST FOR TODAY:  I will refrain from improving anybody but myself.

I wish all readers the best of luck with whatever changes you have decided to make in this Naked New Year--2012.  Wash off the gunk, stand up, face it!