The journey into another year begins

Welcome, 2012. I am ready for you. I am ready for all of the joys and surprises, the sorrows and challenges. I am ready for the new friends and the new projects. I am ready for the books I will read, the music I will hear, the photos I will take, and the places I will go. I am ready for all that life has to offer me. I am ready for 2012.

The road of life twists and turns

and no two directions are ever the same.

Yet our lessons come from the journey,

not the destination. ~ Don Williams, Jr.

 Focus on the journey, not the destination.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

~ Greg Anderson

 Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination

that we forget the journey.

 Then we turned, and took our journey

into the wilderness... ~ The Bible

 ...We journey to the day,

And tell each other how we sang

To keep the dark away. ~ Emily Dickinson

 As travellers oft look back at eve

When eastward darkly going,

To gaze upon that light they leave

Still faint behind them glowing —

So, when the close of pleasure’s day

To gloom hath near consign’d us,

We turn to catch one fading ray

Of joy that’s left behind us. ~ T. Moore

  Ithaka

As you set out in search of Ithaka

Pray that your journey be long,

Full of adventures, full of awakenings.

Do not fear the monsters of old …

You will not meet them in your travels

If your thoughts are exalted and remain high,

If authentic passions stir your mind, body, and spirit.

You will not encounter fearful monsters

If you do not carry them within your soul,

If your soul does not set them up

in front of you. ~ Constantine Peter Cavafy

Welcome to 2012! I hope you will decide to take the journey with me. Happy New Year!