Downtown Dame

It’s been a while…and with a new year comes new resolutions. I for one have never liked the idea of resolving to do something good for your self and life on January 1 of any year. It seems pretentious and doomed for failure. It’s as if you might not have given it any thought until New Year’s day approached and then you said to yourself, “Ya know I should really ____, everyone else is doing it”. So, I am of the mindset that we should always be searching for ways to improve ourselves and resolving to follow those paths, carpe diem style.

But I do have to admit, when it comes to resolving to quit vices and commit to any type of
regime, it does help to feel like you’re starting out with a bang. That you’ve been given a extra boost, a clean slate even. And it is just a feeling. In actuality January 1 doesn’t hold special powers to help you quit, start, stop, go – but if you believe it does, it does, right?

So, here at Downtown Dame, I want to encourage you to follow your creative passions in life. We all have something – whether it’s growing plants, long boarding, cooking in your own kitchen with a treasured cookbook, recovering chairs, making jewelry, the possibilities go on – and it’s searching these passions that lead to greater satisfaction and happiness. That said, if there is something standing in your way, keeping you from exercising and practicing a creative passion – sit down, close your eyes and figure out how to work around it, reschedule it, or get rid of it completely. I strongly believe that creating is one of the few things that can sustain us through the turbulence of life, that can be a place where we find peace – so, this year my resolutions are about clearing that path.