River Jordan || Author, Speaker, Radio Personality

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Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

We're rolling our way right into 2010. So here we go, ready or not.

It's a special time of year for me, this season between Christmas and New Years. I take my clean slate very seriously. Gotta make a list of all the people I need to forgive this year and wipe it clean. Gotta make a list of people I need to apologise to and make amends.

The tree is still up and I'm writing this in a hangover fog from the great Swedish Ginger Snaps that Mom brought. I start to roll up my sleeves and stare into the coming year with a wild determination. It's a good thing too, because as I begin the rewrites on the Mercy novel (title still in the works) due out in September 2010, kick off the new live radio program from WRFN 107.1 in Nashville next Wednesday at noon, and pack my suitcase to venture to the Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Getaway Weekend 10th Anniversary, and then on the Southern Voices Conferences in Hoover Alabama I'm going to need all the determination and grit that I can get. Okay, okay - so I'm having a lot of fun rolling in words, and meeting readers on the air and on the road in the process. It still takes just a tad of concentration. And more Ginger Snaps!

This year has inspired me and tried me. I have seen the publication of Saints In Limbo and enjoyed its beautiful reception from readers across the nation. I lost my precious Aunt Kate early on and have felt that loss all year long. The new novel is finished and moving into edits and will soon be in readers hands in upcoming months ahead. I've had the pleasure of making new friends in my travels, spending time with my family, hosting the Adorables for a madcap spoil 'em like crazy vacation, and enjoyed the minds and company of Miss Fancy and Mr. Smarty from pants down the street.

I've road tripped with husband and alone broken down on the road, been stranded, towed, and left in the woods for a month to write - only to come home to find my dream Jeep waiting for me tied up in a red bow.

I've watched wild thunderstorms crash across my porch, sunrises through sleepy eyes, snowstorms cover a region, and watched an owls wings cast shadows across our wooded hill during a full moon. And I've been blessed to survive both sons being deployed to warzones and safely returning home again. Yes, it's been a great year. Full of magic and tears and one more year of my sloppy, beautiful life.

More soon on my resolution for 2009 and how living out that resolutions has changed me, but for now - I think I'll try to keep my plants alive in 2010. Just a simple little thing. Or maybe learn to make something with eggplant, learn a foreign language again, remember how to play chess, and write an old-fashioned letter to a friend once a week. Or jump out of a plane, or . . . I guess I really don't need a brand new resolution at all. Maybe I just need to give thanks for the past year, and reach my arms out wide to receive all that 2010 has in store for me.

In the coming year, I wish you a pure heart, a wise mind, a peace that passes understanding, and that in all the light and shadows of your breathing hours you know that you are loved.

Keep reading and keep believing.

River Jordan

posted by River Jordan at 9:51 PM

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