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This year:

I would like to learn to adopt the parts of myself that usually make me feel alone, that usually make me need to isolate myself farther. This doesn’t achieve anything. Thus, this year, I would like to let myself be seen. I wish to give folks the choice to adore me, just as I ‘m. If I can learn to adopt the bits of myself that are normally kept under lock and key, maybe the remaining part of the world can to.

I would like to take threats. Huge ones. I would like to challenge myself beyond belief. I would like to establish targets and pursue them, not for any other motive but because I ‘m willing and able, since I have the extreme belief that I can achieve anything I set my head to.

I would like to love completely. This encompasses myself and others. I would like to experience a totally new dimension to love, the sort that’s freely given, and completely received. The type that will not judge or question, but resides with arms flung open. Not out of despair or benefit, but only based on a true and deep link. !

I would like to develop relationships with new folks. I would like to develop better relationships with folks I already understand. Strangers. Family. Friends. Coworkers. Neighbors. Individuals that challenge me, folks that wake excitement in my abdomen, individuals that understand the place that I’m in as well as the place I need to work towards.

I need to locate peace. I would like to feel contentment in the pit of my belly whenever I shut my eyes during the night. I would like to feel so totally whole that there’s nothing that could dissuade me from the trail forward of me.

I would like to assist others attain this calmness also, which would be to say, I would like to spend the year supporting and uplifting those around me. I need to ensure that, at the conclusion of the day, I’m helping to nurture kindness in all the folks around me, and in turn, nurturing that kindness in myself.

2017. I’m prepared for you. Bring on all of your detours, all of the unavoidable challenges, all of the sleepless nights, and whirlwind days. !

I’m turning all of my needs into strategies. I need but I also intend to do. And this year, that can make all the difference. TC mark

Alison Malee is a poet as well as the writer of the novel Shifting Bone.


2017 — I’m Prepared For You

Changing Bone can be found as a physical and electronic publication. You can purchase it here

2017 — I’m Prepared For You