December 7 – Community.

Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011?

I joined a wonderful faculty/staff community at the college where I work.  I am making friends there, and I feel satisfied and fulfilled by those relationships.  I don’t want to have any more/new community experiences in 2011—I already feel overcommitted and overwhelmed by the number of people I should keep in touch with, and I don’t do nearly a good enough job keeping in contact with my close friends.  I really have all of the connections any person could ever want or need.

December 6 – Make.

What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it?

Last thing I made was a pillow for H a couple of weeks ago.  I took out the sewing machine, some leftover fabric, and an assortment of spare buttons.  I finished it, but it looks like crap.  It’s currently collecting dust bunnies on top of one of the shelves in our home office.  I’d like to learn how to knit, if I had time.  I need to take a class, because I’ve found I can’t learn how to do these things from books.

December 5 – Let Go.

What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why?

I let go of the silly idea (delusion) that I have control over my life.  I am more OK this year with the fact that I can’t have a plan for my life…and that things that I have planned for myself might not work out, and be replaced instead, with something equally (or more) awesome than what I had intended originally.