A New Year's Kiss

A bit of a personal post here.

I'm always a bit nostalgic at the end of the year. It weirds me out that a whole year has gone by...a year that I will never ever get back. Hope I lived it to the fullest.

Nonetheless, if you visit this blog, you know the name of it is Free Love 2009. Well, 2009 is hours away from over but I am certainly keeping the year on the name. It pays homage to a lot of things about this year. This blog has become my lovechild and I'm grateful every day to have it as a creative outlet. I'm grateful for the people who enjoy reading my craziness. I'm grateful for the experiences, both personal and not so personal, that inspire me.

As the year draws to a close, I hope you are spending tonight with people you love. Maybe not a significant other, but simply people you love. I have been fortunate enough to spend the past few new years with 3 of the most amazing friends on the planet, always knowing that they will be there for me at any time and any hour during the year ahead.

Freelove2009 will only get bigger and better in 2010. A website perhaps? A book of love poetry on the way? The possibilities are endless.

Maybe, in the end, love is not free. Maybe it costs time, money, energy, devotion, and diligence. But, real love, love that knows no boundaries, can only work if you give it and give of yourself in the most free and vulnerable way possible.

2009, it has been real. It has been wonderful. It has been beautiful. It has been a year I will not soon forget.

Can't wait to cause more ruckus in 2010.

Happy 2010 to all. Consider this your new year's kiss.

Love freely,

tY