It's an absolutely gorgeous day in central Texas. A new year approaches. Tonight, we celebrate its arrival. I contemplate: "This is my last New Year's Eve!" Everyone is making quick decisions about how they want to spend it. Our personal plans have changed two or three times already. The final decision: we stay local. We invite a handful of close friends over and we do some ceremony to mark the end and the beginning... No crowds. No driving. No drunken hooping and hollering. Just my sweetie, intimate friends, good snacks, some champagne, lots of love, and a bit of magic...Perfect.
And so it is: this New Year's Eve I celebrate the end, the beginning, and the End, for it is my last-ever New Year's as this person having this life. And as this person having this life, I can say that my heart is full, and as the Native Americans say, "Today is a good day to die, for all the things of my life are present."
3:51 p.m.: Hours now into this last day of 2009 and the energy all around is shifting. The truth is that my friends and I contemplate Lady Death more then your average Jane. The spiritual path we all follow encourages us to keep "The Lady" close at hand, for one never knows when they will feel the tap of her long finger on their shoulder. We've learned to honor the Angel of Death as our ally; she teaches us to live more fully, as she has the power to call us "home" at any moment.
The question is: "Can we really find more life by feeling more death?"
Have a happy-filled, warm-hearted, face-smiling, slapping good time tonight folks! No matter where you are or what you do, celebrate tonight as though it were your last New Years Eve ever, because it just might be...
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