Resolving

Happy New Year (almost!) This is a time when you hear about people making "new year's resolutions." I don't do that -- I observe how hypocritical such "resolutions" are. You make them, then a few days later, they're forgotten.

What I resolve to do in 2009 is to continue to do what I have been doing, which includes, but is not limited to:

• Continuing to care for family and friends, and take steps to help make things better for them, in whatever ways that I can.
  
• Remaining happy, joyful, and up-beat.
  
• I have so much to be thankful for, I resolve to continue to display and share my thanks.
  
• Smiling at total strangers! (and friends, and family, and anyone else!)
  
• Enjoying life's surprises, and making lemonade when life serves you lemons.
  
• Sharing knowledge, information, and ideas with others when requested, but not offered unsolicited.
  
• Taking time to have fun! Ride my Harley with the group that I ride with, share walks with my next-door-neighbor, play Bocci con i ragazzi, update my website, maintain the properties that I own, build stuff -- including a gazebo in our back yard park. (Yeah, this IS fun for me!)
  
• Remaining passionate about my community service, and bringing about thoughtful resolution to challenges we face in our neighborhood, community, county, state, and country to the degree that I can.
  
• Loving and caring for my partner: my love-of-my-life, my best friend in the whole world, my lover, my joy, my hunkadorabilious, my one-and-only.
  
• Showing those that I love that I love them, each and every day.

Tonight, as I celebrate New Year's Eve for the 23rd time with a very close friend, his wife, his family and extended network of friends, I will carry through on these "life resolutions." And I'll be wearing leather and boots, too!

Happy New Year! See 'ya next year!