Watching me, watching me: Re-New-als: 2009 will be Divine!

New Years mark a change in our calibration of time, present a continual point of reference, offer us a sense of self, and give the opportunity of renewal.

Something about a fresh start, like a blank sheet of paper is invigorating. Oh the possibilities to sketch and write whatever!

While January 1st has always been a day to spend at home with the family - a day of prayer and well wishes for a blessed, healthy, and happy New Year, a day of recognizing and thanking the earth for another year of life to experience what it has to offer - the power of the freshness of the year never sinks in until mid-January, usually week 3.

Sometime around January 17 or 18, after Martin Luther King Jr.'s day, is when the page begins to look possible, plans map themselves out in repetition, and enough time passes that writing the date and calendering events actually holds the correct number at the end of 2-0-0-? .

Until then, its playing and toying and visioning new possibilities...

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I've been trying to recharge at home, in chance to be ready for what this new year and new semester will bring. Here's what some of the vision holds, something that a map will help plan out:

* Another opportunity to teach a media class
* Finishing our film project on gentrification in Little Dhaka in Koreatown
* More chances to build with the Desi and our multiethnic community in Los Angeles
* Good opportunities to learn about issues of reproductive and gender justice
* Possibilities for future film projects with youth

On a personal level:

* Cooking with yummy vegetables!
* Attending dance class
* Some yoga
* Better at maintaining connections with and supporting friends and family
* Watch even more films!
* More "me time" for reflection, writing, and balancing
* Time to practice in a spirituality that fosters self-growth
* More art projects!

Here's a reflection on the holidays:

Family Time equals Ridiculousness with the Cousins