2009 10 18

 Start the celebrations by putting real meaning into Halloween.

Change your costume and change who you are.

Use change as a tool, after all it is inevitable, and conscious change creates choices to celebrate.

Use Halloween to find new ways to look at life, & craft an attitude adjustment to have fun.

Follow on November First by a reverence for All Saints day.

See and treat everyone as a SAINT that day.

Its only one day, and it could become a stepping-stone to the next celebration, and a new attitude.

And on the American Thanksgiving construct gratitude lists.

Extort your gratitude as grace.

Share your bounty, even if it’s a conscious morsel left for an uninvited guest or stranger. 

There are holidays you may not understand, like Chanukah and Kwanzaa.

Search and ask of the meanings and practice respect for other’s ritual.

Empower yourself and others by respecting what you may not understand.

Then on Christmas, ponder the multitude of meanings given to a day of commercial magnitude, good cheer, goodwill, and excited grandkids.

Extend the myths and magic of giving and receiving.

Welcome the miracle of birth and the blessing that the light has returned.

Join with others and feel the oneness of humanity.

From the season of giving, give yourself a new start on New Year’s Day.

Use the space from New Years to Chinese New Year to make ReSoultions to create 2010.

It’s the time to Celebrate our Holy Days, because if you are not appreciating this moment, what are you doing? And life becomes a party when we fully participate.

Namaste

Gary