New Year’s Eve has never been my favorite holiday. Drinking loads of champagne, staying up late, balls dropping at midnight…it’s just never really been my thing. Especially now that I’m a mother with a child who gets up at 6am, staying up until 1am just sounds like a good way to ruin New Year’s Day. Last year, we all toasted at 10pm and scurried off to bed. Yeah, so maybe it’s kind of lame, but I just didn’t see the point of heralding in the new year at the very moment it arrived.

But for some reason, this year, I feel differently. 2009 has honestly been the best year of my life, the year when all of my dreams are coming true. I have a feeling 2010 is going to be even better. It’s thrilling, really, to watch yourself come to life, to manifest your deepest fantasies, to wake up.

A Solitary New Year’s Eve

Because I feel so much gratitude for the life I’m living and so much hope for the future, this year, I will stay up until the clock strikes, even if I do it alone. My husband is already tired this morning, after staying up late making a batch of green juice. My daughter will go to bed at her usual early hour. And we’ll be spending the holiday with my pregnant cousin, her young family, and my mother, who just arrived from the east coast and will certainly be sleepy. So I have a feeling I may usher in the new year alone. But that’s perfectly fine with me, since I know now that I am never alone. I know you Pinkies will join me in spirit, and I know the Universe is always with me.



How I Will Ring In The New Year

So tonight, I hope to ring in the new year in silence. I will head to a dark beach to release what no longer serves me into the ocean waves. I will walk barefoot on the cold sand and feel myself rooted to the earth. I will spend some time in meditation. I will pray. I will bask in the full blue moon. (What are the chances, really, that a blue moon would fall on New Year’s Eve, at the end of a decade, as a new one begins? I mean really…it’s magical). Then, I will spend the last moments of 2009 doing what I love best- writing my way into 2010.



How Will You Celebrate?

What are you doing for New Year’s Eve, Pinkies? Is there a way you can slip away from the revelry to celebrate YOU- where you’ve been, where you’re going, how far you’ve come? Might you find some quiet time to light a candle on your altar, spend a few moments in meditation, pray, write in your journal, or otherwise honor the turning of the calendar in a meaningful way? As the clock strikes midnight, while people are kissing and champagne glasses are toasting, might you close your eyes and be in the moment, truly awake, fully aware, living in gratitude, feeling your joy? Might we collectively toast to each other, knowing that even if no one kisses us on the stroke of midnight, we are never alone?

Let us know how you will honor the new year, Pinkies.

Toasting to YOU,

Lissa