Snow Melt

2013 a New Beginning

December 29, 2012 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  by Prosperous Snow celebrating “A New Year is a New Beginning, write about a New Beginning of some type it can be story, a poem, or a slice of life event. Emergency Prompt: Write a prediction for 2013.”

The year 2013 will be a new beginning for me. I won't be completely starting over because that would mean forgetting all the lessons I've learned over the past 66 years. In 2013, I'll begin a new phase of my life and I'm a little nervous. I'm nervous because I don't know what to expect. I don't know what to expect because I can't completely foretell the future, which is a good thing.

I have a recurring dream that indicates a new phase in my life. In this dream, I'm at my grandparent's house in Blackwell, Oklahoma. The reason I'm usually there is because of a funeral, a memorial service, or distributing an inheritance. This dream occurs because I'm starting a new phase of my life. The last time I had the dream, my mother wasn't with me; always before my mother was with me.

At 11 minutes before midnight of December 24, 2012 I turned 66. For the past 65 years, I've been blessed to begin the year with my mother in my life. Mom is in a better place now and I'm left on the material plane to go on living without her physical presence. I'll miss Mom's smiling face and her joyous "Happy New Year" as we eat black eyed peas and watch television. Sometimes I don't know how I will go on without her. Who will give me encouragement and tell me I can do anything I set my mind to? Who will I ask for advice? I will go on because I can't give up.

On January 1, 2013, I'll fix a new black eyed pea recipe and create a new New Year's custom. On January 1, 2013 I'll make my first fresh carafe of coffee by grinding coffee beans. In addition, I'll add jalapeno peppers to my black eyed peas recipe.