I’m back.
Where did I go? Where didn’t I go.
I would tell you about my adventures, but they are stuck in my head.
Time management was a bit of an issue for me this summer – as was sticking to a schedule.
I started out with good intentions to blog daily with creative stories. I really did.
Then BANG – ADD kicked in and I got distracted with calls, text messages, facebook messages, tweets, linkedin posts and EMAILS! I also said YES to meetings that had nothing to do with (me) moving forward.
And now we’re in the last leg of the year…..
WHOA JACK.
Basically, I did not stick to a schedule and so my daily attempt to blog failed miserably.
However, I found a solution:
ROSH HASHANAH:
THE ULTIMATE 2011 DO-OVER WEAPON.
It’s better than Cats!
No, I’m not Jewish but I’m intrigued by Jewish customs and traditions so I’m jumping on this holiday bandwagon. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. According to Wikipedia, it is the first of the High Holidays celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur
(see more info on RH below).
Why a DO-OVER? It’s not JUST because I didn’t keep up with blogging over the summer – I had a series of unfortunate events this year.
Thinking this was going to be MY year filled with great adventures and smashing success, I was stoked for the new year! Why wouldn’t it be a great year – the past four were crazy nightmares. I needed to reinvent and move mountains! I craved something bigger in my life. I wanted to do better and make some sort of a footprint on this earth. I was anxious for change – a big one. I wanted……
Life Interrupted.
Well I didn’t want to fall and break my leg in two places, I assure you of that! My daily morning walk with my dog, Carr ended a little tragic January 5th. So life slows down a whole lot for a few months and then begins to speed up around April/May and I finally ditched the crutches. Weeeeeeee.
Life Interrupted.
A carefree night with friends in June ends with a severely sprained ankle on my GOOD FOOT! I can’t even walk on it the next day. On a positive note – I have stock in robo-cop boots, crutches and compression socks. Back to square one. A month passes, track opens and I am pushing the heels once again.
I feel great, ready to rock this summer.
Life Interrupted.
At “The Silks, Satins & Stars” event in July, the dance floor spins proved to be a bit overwhelming for my injured ankle. Next day – my ankle looks like a knee-cap.
Back to the boot.
Here we are, nine months later and I can finally run 8 minutes straight.
WOOT WOOT!
I just started to wear heels on special occasions. It was a physical and emotional roller coaster but I feel this was something I was supposed to endure in preparation of the ‘bigger picture’. I think I know what it is because dots are starting to connect in strange ways…..it’s exciting and annoying. I’d rather have the ‘bigger picture’ slam into my life. At 40, I don’t have time to fit the pieces of the life puzzle together. BUT, perhaps the universe is holding back on showing me the ‘bigger picture’ until I learn how to master the life puzzle.
Hmmmmm…….
PER WIKIPEDIA:
Rosh Hashanah marks the start of a new year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four “new year” observances that define various legal “years” for different purposes as explained in the Mishnah and Talmud). It is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and jubilee (yovel) years. Jews believe Rosh Hashanah represents either figuratively or literally the creation of the World, or Universe. However, according to one view in the Talmud, that of R. Eleazar, Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of man, which entails that five days earlier, the 25 of Elul, was the first day of creation of the Universe.[3]
The Mishnah, the core text of Judaism’s oral Torah, contains the first known reference to Rosh Hashanah as the “day of judgment.” In the Talmud tractate on Rosh Hashanah it states that three books of account are opened on Rosh Hashanah, wherein the fate of the wicked, the righteous, and those of an intermediate class are recorded. The names of the righteous are immediately inscribed in the book of life, and they are sealed “to live.” The middle class are allowed a respite of ten days, until Yom Kippur, to repent and become righteous; the wicked are “blotted out of the book of the living forever.”[4]
In Jewish liturgy Rosh Hashanah is described as “the day of judgment” (Yom ha-Din) and “the day of remembrance” (Yom ha-Zikkaron). Some midrashic descriptions depict God as sitting upon a throne, while books containing the deeds of all humanity are opened for review, and each person passing in front of Him for evaluation of his or her deeds.
The Talmud provides three central ideas behind the day:
“The Holy One said, ‘on Rosh Hashanah recite before Me [verses of] Sovereignty, Remembrance, and Shofar blasts (malchuyot, zichronot, shofrot): Sovereignty so that you should make Me your King; Remembrance so that your remembrance should rise up before Me. And through what? Through the Shofar.’ (Rosh Hashanah 16a, 34b)”[5] This is reflected in the prayers composed by the classical rabbinic sages for Rosh Hashanah found in all machzorim where the theme of the prayers is the strongest theme is the “coronation” of God as King of the universe in preparation for the acceptance of judgments that will follow on that day, symbolized as “written” into a Divine book of judgments, that then hang in the balance for ten days waiting for all to repent, then they will be “sealed” on Yom Kippur. The assumption is that everyone was sealed for life and therefore the next festival is Sukkot (Tabernacles) that is referred to as “the time of our joy” (z’man simchateinu).
L’Shana Tova!