Crystals, and other orderly repeating patterns

Today's the first day back to work of the New Year, with all of the frenetic pacing I'd expected, and the best news is that I have no news to report. I was fairly exhausted by December! I took a few days off last week and the effects were positively rejuvenating, and I'm delighted to be here now, as my hippie friends say. I am starting 2009 with a wildly imaginative and ambitious new project that I'll announce formally later this week, so I'm off to work on that for a while. Tonight I'm very much looking forward to dinner at Cafe Katja with an old friend who's in town. We once enjoyed a magical interlude on Martha's Vineyard after leaving behind our unsatisfying jobs and although it was a very "rock bottom" type of feeling to be so disenchanted, I'm delighted to note that it was only up and up for both of us thereafter. Looking back, I was so wracked with fear about what could be worse that I lacked even the slightest inkling of what glorious things awaited me in the near future. How I wish I could've called the younger me to say, relax, darling, it will be better than you know! So I'll pretend for the moment that it's one year later and I've just done that. What a lovely way to start afresh... thank you, 2009!