"Elisa" :: 30"x30" mixed media on canvas

Even though Thanksgiving is not quite here, I have already started looking ahead to 2007 and thinking about what the new year might look like.  I am beginning to look at 2006 and explore what went well and what could have been better, what was successful and what turned out to be not quite exceptional.  It is also interesting to observe the impact a new year has on one’s life – as soon as the calendar crosses over from December 31 to January 1 suddenly it feels like there is more opportunity for new beginnings, a greater chance of goals being accomplished, and a perfectly clean slate.  It feels like I can wipe away whatever I didn’t like about 2006 and file it away under "The Past" and only carry what I liked about 2006 into the new year.  Perhaps each new year is nothing more than a psychic move from one chapter to the next.  Just as I inevitably go through all of my belongings and discard what I don’t need when I move from one home to the next, I can dump things deemed "unuseful" at the end of a year and keep the things I value most for my journey into the new one.  It is fun to think about each year being a different home that we get to organize and decorate and structure around our goals and dreams.

What do you want your new home to look like in 2007?  What will it have in it?