"Welcome 2013... please be kind. Lend your healing power to those with hurting hearts, failing spirits and ailing bodies. Help us to embrace change while committing to empowering ritual and honored traditions. Allow us to understand the importance of making mistakes and push us to reach beyond our comfort zones. Teach us to recognize and nurture our individual gifts and how to best cultivate and celebrate the talents of those around us. Provide us with tools to create in better and more meaningful ways and eliminate our need and desire to destroy. Remind us to turn off the television, our cell phone, notepad, computer and game-boy and tune into the wonder of authentic dialogue, real conversation and heartfelt laughter. Give us permission to grieve fully, and cry and care too much. Remind us to express our feelings and shower the people we love with crazy acts and acknowledgements. Teach us that sentiment is a good thing. Allow us to see with the eyes of a child and soak in the joy and mystery of the first snow fall, the beauty of the stars, the playful call of mud puddle and intrigue of a potato bug. Tell us to make ourselves a priority and help us find the time to slow down so we can feed our spirit, nourish our soul and exercise our bodies. Help us savor the moment...relish the now...even when it is hard and challenging. Give us the strength to take a big, juicy and messy bite out of the year that stands before us. Welcome. So glad that you are here." -Jodi Kirk (a friend of a friend on facebook)