A New Year

Rebekah (at least last year and this year) selected a word to embody her theme for the year. This year it's work and last year it was fortitude. I really like the idea of having a theme for the year. I've celebrate the months since sometime in graduate school, but the theme of a month is just as likely to be The Month of Watching British TV or The Month of Openly Despising Library Patrons as Well as Privately Harboring Feelings of Disdain for Them as not. They're not always inspiring months. But, occasionally, when the month's theme is actually something positive, like the Month of Kindness, I find myself murmuring, Kindness costs you nothing, as I tell someone, AGAIN, that www.johndoe.com is not his email address and I try a little harder. So, this year I'm embracing Rebekah's idea.

I love Westminster Abbey. It's one of my favorite places in all the world. It's so historically significant and soulful. I love memorials, particularly cemeteries, and Westminster is all about remembering and commemorating lives. I dig it. Anyway, the first time I went there, I stumbled across a tomb engraved with an epitaph stating that the man inside had become "more faithful than fearful." I love that. I would love to be more faithful than fearful, and I'm going to work on that this year. That's my theme.