Word for 2010: Journey

One Word. Healing. Defining Moments. I’ve been quietly reflecting on 2010 in my own way these last weeks. These are the #reverb10 prompts that’ve touched me most.

In the end, the word for 2010 came to me last night in the midst of a conversation over a glass of Shiraz: Journey.

2010 has been a journey like no other and now here I am: 40, in a new city I love, in this beautiful country, meeting great people, taking on interesting work projects, planning trips even I can hardly believe (Angkor Wat & safari in Botswana in the first half of 2011!).

Last night we were laughing and asking questions, sharing our Bucket Lists, each one striving to live his or her own unique adventure.

On this New Year’s Eve, instead of pining away for the family and home I don’t have, I am seeing and embracing the genius in this life I’ve created.  It’s a blank slate yet again and full to bursting with opportunities, wonderful people, beauty, adventures of a lifetime.

In addition to the #reverb10 prompts, here are some of my top tools for New Year’s. Enjoy!

Christine Kane‘s Word of the Year Worksheet
Superhero Andrea Sher’s Mondo Beyondo
Ali Edwards’ One Little Word e-course

and a poem that reminds me (instead of trying to force or cajole life into a certain shape) to see and seize all the many possibilities the Universe might work through me!

Poetics, A.R. Ammons

I look for the way
things will turn
out spiraling from a center,
the shape
things will take to come forth in

so that the birch tree white
touched black at branches
will stand out
wind-glittering
totally its apparent self:

I look for the forms
things want to come as

from what black wells of possibility,
how a thing will
unfold:

not the shape on paper — though
that, too — but the
uninterfering means on paper:

not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours.

And here’s the year in pictures again, just in case you missed it last time!