HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  How wonderfully optimistic it all sounds.  To have a new year, 2014, to be filled with good fortune, joy and delight.  I'm ready for that, are you?  No doubt.  We all want to know that elusive feeling of elation and gratitude 24/7 for our lives and be ready for all the good stuff to happen.  That's me for sure.  This last year, as my friend asked me to sum up in 3 words, was Moving, Growing and Writing.  So stress was a big part of my 2013 year with moving from New York to Florida to North Carolina.  We all know moving is very stressful... and growing?  Well, they don't call them growing "pains" for nothing.  Whew, the stuff that had to come out.  The enduring knowledge it doesn't end here.  We take it all when we leave so it's best to get rid of as much of the junk and negative stuff now as possible.  And I have truly given my life over to my Highest Power.  I have to admit, it's sometimes a tug of war.  I'm so impatient and if God isn't moving fast enough I want it back to fix it all myself.   Well, folks it doesn't work that way.  We get hit over the head by a two by four if we don't let go and insist on using our own will for the life we are meant to live.  At least I do.  

One of my very favorite sayings is by Emily Dickinson, she says "God's gifts put mans best dreams to shame."  Wow!!  Is that profound or what.  So today, I will see with new eyes that all the past has a design and purpose.  At this moment, the divinity of not having a car was the only way I would be forced to sit down and write a book, actually two.  They may be thin on pages but they are potent and rich in content.   I hope you all get a chance to read both.  I really enjoyed writing them over the years.  I made some changes to the book, How I Survived the Sixties, which is something one can do using CreateSpace.  So it's not available until tomorrow.  But do go to Amazon.com tomorrow and secure a copy.  You will not be sorry.  In the meantime, I will attempt to get a blog out at least every other day if not every day.

  Next week I meet with the fellow who runs the Browncoat Theater downtown so we can discuss producing Eve Enslers play Necessary Targets, about a small group of Bosnian refugee camp women.  I did the play as a staged reading in Austin, Texas.  I also saw it as a staged reading in Los Angeles, with Eve Ensler, Calista Flockhart, Julia Stiles, Juliana Margulies, Cloris Leachman, Kathleen Chalfant, and a Bosnian actress, Mira Fulan.  It's a great, powerful little play and I look forward to working on it.  God-willing of course.  I have to secure some wheels, soon!!  Did you hear that God?  Soon!!!  (she smiles and knows better) So I wish you all a blessed year but really, a blessed life.  Joy is an inside job but triggered by outside events.  Sometimes we resonate with some piece of music, or we hear a baby laugh, or we see a film that makes us experience tears of joy.  Contrary to popular belief, there is much joy to be had out in our world.  I wish this all for you because your good fortune is my good fortune. God bless ya'll!