Wishes....

We Wish You a Merry Wishmas
There seems to be a fallow period, a lull, a lacunae (isn't that a great word? I hope I spelled it correctly) that falls somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas. For me, it seems to be a period where I reflect on the year that is rapidly coming to a close and the new one that is gathering speed and will land upon one's doorstep in a matter of weeks. Which brings me to all those things I wish for, my own bundle of hope for starting the year anew.

I was going to list here some of the things I wish for, but realized there are so many and yet only one wish I make to myself year-after-year it almost seems ludicrous to admit to it. Or admit to failing at it, is perhaps more accurate. Year-after-year I have wished to write more letters to people I care about. Yep, that's the simple goal. Nothing as demanding as training to run a marathon, learning to speak French, losing 10, 15, 20 pounds. My humble goal was and is simply to write letters.
To fail so miserably at this task required some revised goal-setting as in setting the bar lower, much lower. So the goal was then revised to writing one letter a month, and that was then revised the following year to joting a note, sending a greeting card which was then further revised to initialling a post-it-note and sticking it on an clever article or cartoon and sending THAT in place of said letter. I simply wanted to let people know I was thinking of them in some way that didn't involve email or the telephone. And truth be told, I fail pretty miserably at that, too. The biggest irony is that I set goals for myself and then work away at them like a dog with a bone until I achieve the goal -- and yet this simple one, perhaps the simplest of all, is my personal bete noire.

So hear I sit once again on the boundry of a new year wondering if I should just admit defeat and think of a new wish. Or hope against all evidence to the contrary that this year will be different.

How about you? Any unfulfilled wishes that might come true for you? Jot a note, send a card, write a letter, post to the blog -- and let me know.

Jackie