Thoughts before Bed

Life is a funny ball of wax -- I'm never sure what is going to be around the corner. In some ways this is terrifying and in others it is thrilling. Was thinking this evening about all of the roads and moments that led to where I stand right now. Just want to close the night with some questions and thoughts:

• Love the rain falling outside my window -- sitting by the fireplace and so enjoying the moment.
• Am so very thankful to be surrounded by amazing, loving people.
• Am so happy to be in love.
• Love that I have a partner with whom I can talk, and laugh, and adventure, and hope and dream and accomplish things with.
• Love people who have the ability to just say f-it and dare to be themselves. 
• Wonder if Glenn Beck really believes that Sarah Palin is the "only hope for America," as he put it the other day on Fox. I am trying to figure out what he means...that she is our only hope for Christian revival? Or hope for freedom? Or...hope for the continuance of judgmental, narrow-minded social thought? I need help Glenn...please fill me in a bit. (And no I don't dislike Sarah Palin as a person...I just think she needs to stretch her mind a bit further.)
  
• I wonder how 2010 will shape up...I hope beautifully.
  
• Why do people all too often give up on their dreams and settle for commonplace? 
• In yoga tonight I focused on my breath more than I usually do -- it was liberating.
• How can I be a more compassionate human being? I need to try harder :-P
•  “Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars” -- Tolstoy. I read this today and I agree. More on this another day.
• Why is it that I can write all day and night for clients but it is so hard to write for myself? 
• Love that Glee won best comedy or musical TV series. I saw the entire season over the past 3 weeks and love it!
• Am realizing that creativity is at its best when I come to the drawing board with a fresh mind and perspective. Also when I come from a place of freedom -- fear freezes most thought.
• Flipped a coin the other day. The deal was that we were going to either stay in or go out to the nature preserve -- it was heads (George Washington's face stared us in the eyes) -- and the nature preserve adventure that followed was breathtaking. I realize that it's better to go and experience than be stagnant.
• Love Meryl Streep -- her rawness and goodness. Little girls should study her life philosophy in school.
  

Ok off to bed -- was fun writing for myself for a bit