New Year! New Ball!  What else could possibly fall into place in 2009? I was pleased to hear on NPR this morning that a brand spanking new updated LED double size, superior  Times Square Ball has been installed.  This new improved ball will  drop us all  into 2009 and will now be on display year round for all to see.   In Reflection of the year 2008  I can recognize great success in my own life and the lives of those who surround me.  The lessons of 2008 were endless.

2008 began for me in my hometown in Vermont.  I was terribly sick, as was my best friend and we spent the celebration full of cough medicine with warm tea in hand.  It was hardly an exciting invitation to the coming year, but was rather an introduction into our personal perseverance, and ability to not let the little things in life get us down.  Hence we repeated continuously together, Em and I, 2008 is GREAT! We then sickly  kissed 2007 and all its ills and glory  goodbye, got a good nights sleep, woke up in 2008 well rested, and better.

I have learned so much from my friends and my family this year.  Janessa has shown me true personal dedication and how very resilient a mind can be when given the proper attention and time to just be with itself and be okay with that.  Jacob has shown me first hand what emotional loving is and can be.  He has been my shoulder, inspiration, and very best friend of the year, and I am so grateful for his support and love.  Corn has shown me inspiration on so many levels, I am continually moved by her personal growth, strength and reflection.  Destiny showed me the strength of the human heart, the beauty of each of our own unique talents, and what closing a chapter in ones life can do to open the door to a whole new world.  My sisters continue to work toward there dreams, and this keeps me motivated to pave the way and lead by example for them, so that they will never ever give up.

I’ve watched great friendships rebound from insurmountable ruins.  Businesses grow to unexpected levels, Dreams stretch to become  larger and more clearly viewed, Love flourish in the most unexpected places, A father who’s strength surpassed any  hopes and created the most inspiring chain of optimism in his daughters.   I have watched as people have gone above and beyond for the people that mean most to them, even when they knew the favor would never be returned.  I have been so grateful for my network of the most creative, loving, and inspiring people I have ever known.  And the endless love and support of my Grandparents and all of the other people who believe in me and what I am passionate about so lovingly, without you…I can’t even imagine what life would be.

Each and everyone one of you that has touched my world on any level has made me a better person, and taught me so very much.  I have the foundation now that supports everything I have always believed, which is that people are inherently GOOD and deserve second, forty, or five hundredth chances… (circumstances pending of coarse).  That if you love something or someone you may at some point have to let it or them go…only to appreciate the actual lesson.  That life is filled with lessons for all of us if we will only take the time to stop and listen.  That we are creative beings, resilient beings, loving beings full of light and passion that wants so desperately to be harnessed.

I wish each and everyone of you a 2009 so much greater than you could ever dream.  A year where great opportunities no longer pass you but join you in your growth.  A year filled with absolute true love on every level outward and inward.  A year of great success in all that you do, May everything you touch turn to gold and your new glorious self be on display all year round for all the world to see.

Happy New Year to all of YOU!  Namaste and High Fives!!!! LULU

I’m so fortunate to be spending the holidays with my east coast family this year.  Its been a whirlwind of visits and scrumptious eats and catching up with all of the friends and family who are so dear to me.  Each year seems to surpass the last.  I am continually amazed by all of the wonderful things that people I know are doing, and how ridiculously in love so many couples still are.

( I made my own Christmas cards this year, NICE and NAUGHTY stamped with love)

The holidays serve as such an excellent reminder to me that no-matter how little you may see someone, or how infrequently you may speak to people you love because of your busy bee schedule, that family and true friendship never ever dies.  It only grows stronger.  Thank you so much to all of the supportive people in my life, to all the loving and caring people that I have the great bragging rights of calling “my family” or ” my friend” or “my client”.  I am so blessed to share the holidays with so many people that I am absolutely in love with.

Merry Christmas to all!  Here is wishing you and yours the most magical of Holidays shared with all of those that you love and cherish wildly.

(Our humble little homemade christmas tree!)