I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.~Neil Gaiman

I have never read anything by Neil Gaiman, though I understand he's an author, but I did like his quote. Here is the rest of this quote:

"Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever."

I sometimes find the end of the year a blessing, and a wreck. Not all years are fun and I am glad to be rid of it, some years are totally the bomb, and I hate to see it go. Most of all, I look forward to the future and what it holds, even if it is not happy, since it marks time and involves emotion. I know that I am alive.

So, here I sit at the beginning of the last day of 2014 with nothing profound to say. I am not fond of the television shows that do the "glimpse back" segments. But I can look back at my personal life and see for myself that the life I live is amazing, troubling, exciting and alive. This year, like the year before it and the years following, hold lots of surprises not matter how well I plan it out.

Girl and I went to Target yesterday. She needed a desk calendar. She absolutely plans her year. She needs this calendar and was beginning to become stressed that she didn't have one before the 1st. It was bad! She had been looking for a particular one and it wasn't there last week. PTL! It was there yesterday. And that is what made me think about planning our lives.

I am not young. I dreamed of my life when I was  a child and teen, and the hopes and vision I had was not the life I know today. I can't plan the timing of  all events in my life and make them fit into a year, month or date. They just happen. I plan grocery shopping, clothes to wear, house work, but even those can be altered by an occurrence that can quickly turn a rigidly planned event into chaos. 

So this year, I will fly by the seat of my pants (as if) and try to enjoy the moments of good, grapple with frustration when it doesn't go right, and remember I am one day closer to Heaven. Plus, I want to go to the Wild Animal Park.