January 1-making vision boards

Yesterday morning the three of us started making personal vision boards. At two-ish, Kelly had to leave to set up for his New Year's Eve gig an hour away but Olivia and I continued, snipping and arranging and pasting our cut-out wishes and goals on 18x24 inch sheets of watercolor paper. We worked for hours until somewhere around seven o'clock when we declared them finished. Images were gleaned from old magazines and catalogs and we drew a few things here and there when we couldn't find what we needed. My sweetie was enthusiastic and tireless and I was such a proud mama when she shared the images she chose and explained their meanings. The whole process: the thinking about what I want for my future, the choosing of the picture to represent it, and the act of seeing it all before me, resonated more strongly in my heart than a list of resolutions I close up in a notebook and put away. "Thoughts create things." I believe this and it makes me happy to know my thoughts will go to good places when I look at the vision board. Here are a few close-up images (it feels too personal to share my whole board though Olivia has kindly given me permission to share hers.) :

"New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
[a big thank you to Lisa for the quote]