I learned a lot in 2008.

I learned about adventure, believing in my children, cherishing my husband. I taught myself to dive, to enjoy, to have faith and to ask for joy. Grace, hope, listening and kindness. I learned about nurturing others, incubating my thoughts before I write and about making new friends. 2008 was good for being present, being quiet and being a student. I read more, I wrote more and I yielded more. I learned about tenacity and voracity from my children and about exposure from my own experience. I worked on being unruffled, being open and ending well.

Now that I’ve “learned” so much, what do I do?

Knowledge, wisdom, experience is nothing without action.

So I’ve decided that 2009 will be a year of “doing” for me. Of course I’ll learn a lot through the doing, but I know that I need to act, rather than sit back and wait for all the learning to infuse.

(This is the closet I’ll ever get to a resolution.)

What am I going to do?

I have no idea.

But at the very least, I’m going to try to let all the thing I’ve learned affect my normal life. I want to be a more nurturing friend and a more tenacious parent. I want to be voracious in my joy and notice the tiny graces in my day. I want to be known as a listener, a grace-giver and an optimist. I want to be a student of my daughters. And I want hope and kindness to be my daily goals.

2009 for me is a year for doing.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO “DO” IN 2009?