Wishing and letting go

My dear, dear friends who I see altogether too seldom (that will change in the new year, surely!! we will make it so) met at Woodland for some new year intention-setting. I had this amazing champagne cocktail with elderberry liqeur that made me feel like a dear little woodland creature but anyway...
We wrote our wishes for the new year down on slips of paper and tied them in a wishing tree that's right at the entrance to the pedestrian bridge at Lamar and Riverside. Did you know that if you write down your wishes and tie them in a tree they are 99.5 percent more likely to come true? Sorry, that statistic is not scientifically proven, not yet, but you'll just have to try it for yourself and see...

We also made little origami boats, painted or drew on them what we were ready to let go of. We then pushed them off into the waters of Town Lake with the wee little candles all aflame inside 'em, and watched as they burst into flames... hee hee! OK, not all of them exactly burst into flames... some did, some just meandered off and smoldered in the reeds, but.... still, I think this was a powerful exercise. It felt really good and complete. A powerful image to carry with you the whole year long. Goodbye fear, doubt, resentment, stubborness, anxiety... goodbye messiness of my house, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!