Happy new year, happy new beginnings * maybe I'll write a children's book about new years celebrations around the world!

" We are at the threshold. We are going to see change. If we can create the vision in our heart, it will spread. As women of wisdom we cannot be divided. As bringers of light, we have no choice but to join together."

_____ Agness Baker Pilgrim www.GrandmothersCouncil.com

The snow is falling on the barren landscape. Making it fresh and beautiful again. I reach my hands up to the sky and give thanks for this new beginning. Millions of tiny little snow flakes melt unto my face with sweet grace. All of them unique and impermanent.

On the eve of the new year in a small town in the Ottawa Valley:

Three of us are standing on top of a roof one minute before the clock strikes midnight, basking in the glow of the radiant blue moon and the towns old clock tower. I shake up a bottle of "Canadian champagne" in anticipation for the count down welcoming the new year of 2010.

We hear the party below us begin the countdown and we join in with excitement. I pop the bottle of champagne open and fill our glasses. The three of us cheers to new beginnings and sing a verse from the classic german song: auld lang syne and howl at the bright blue moon. Bringing in the new year with song and laughter.

Let's dance through this new year with courage and grace, Living our truth,

listening to the song in our hearts and creating bliss.

Try something new, explore the landscape outside of your comfort zones and feel your consciousness expand.

Every seven years our cells are reborn, Every year we celebrate our birth, Every day we experience a new face of the moon, Every moment we make history.

Be present. Only you can dance your dance, we are all unique, no one else can do it just like you!

be love, pack light and dream magical dreams*

cheers to you and all the wondrous new beginnings!