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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