Five Minute Friday

Roar. 

   2012 feels like a year of roaring to me.  Not roaring as in a scream, or shout, or desperate cry, but the full, quiet confidence of a roar.  That presence that a lion carries with it that no other animal can quite seem to match.  Maybe it's because I know it is going to verge on overwhelming, having 2 under 2.  Maybe it's because I know that the choices we have made in the spacing of our children don't fall into the "picture-perfect-American-family" category, but I'm o.k. with that.

I'm tired of status-quo.

I'm tired of just gazing at my dreams from a distance, too afraid to reach out and touch them, for fear I will get burned.

   I feel like this is the year for change.  If not necessarily always visible on the outside, than a change of heart.  A new beginning of courage to persue and achieve.  A fresh start.  A quiet roar.

   There are so many different directions this year could take.  So many different notes it could end on.  But I hope when my life is over, people won't say that I lived, they will say, "She really lived."
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   Well, that's it, folks.  I finally did a link-up for the first time from The Gypsy Mama and she has this thing that she calls "Five Minute Friday" and she gives her readers five minutes to write about one word, no editing or second-guessing.  Just five solid minutes of letting your words dance across the keyboard, writing whatever comes out.  I guess I've never really had the courage to try it until now, and was surprised at how much fun it was.  You other bloggers out there should give a try too, you might just surprise yourself at what all spills out through your fingers!

After all, this is a year for roaring....