Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Year in Review



When you review the year, do you review the past or prepare for the future? Is it full of regrets or do you carry the wish list forward in anticipation of the new year? Are the resolutions you promise yourself full of happiness and excitement? When your future holds promise, it’s more apt to come true. The momentum of the positive intent will most likely carry you through.

We as SMFairies already have our plans in work for our next get-together which started in September. What a great way to transition the seasons. January here we come.

When we move forward to the new year, we should ask ourselves what we would like to carry forward with us. As I watched the 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, I was inspired by a quote by JFK regarding the arts.

"There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age Elizabeth also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art." (Response to letter sent by Miss Theodate Johnson, Publisher of Musical America to the two presidential candidates requesting their views on music in relation to the Federal Government and domestic world affairs. Answer from then Senator John Kennedy was dated September 13, 1960.) 

To recognize the creative qualities within an individual elevates humanity within civilization.  It is then that a civilization flourishes. It is then that civilizations can share and collaborate for a better world. The arts can express the individual while finding the common ground in humanity, thus binding the two. The arts can also inspire another to self-express in another means. Painting, poetry, music and service to another are all considered creative expression. Civilization at its highest level is enlightenment.



My wish for you in 2012 is creative expression in whatever means suits you….to strive for something new in you that brings you happiness, preferably a happiness that you can share.

Cathy

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