The Year of Meaning

What does it mean to create a "Year of Meaning?" Where every day is lived doing some thing, any "thing" that has meaning to it, every day? What will a life not lived with blinders on, not just trodded through look like after a year?

That is what I mean to do this year: live a life full of meaning by doing something meaningful every day.

I have set this space up to record what this year of meaning will look like for me, and to provide a forum to think, write, create, record, photograph, and document in any manner the meaning of being meaningful.

I come to this, as my resolution this year, as a result of just coming through some very challenging times. I have a daughter who was diagnosed with Autism who has journeyed from a point where she could not communicate with the world, to a little girl full of things to say.

I have come from a position of battling her school district about her education, to being their partner as the district's Parent Liaison.

I have returned to school to finish my Master's Degree.

I have begun volunteering to mentor other families with Special Needs through an organization called FACETS.

I have come from a self-focused life-direction, where I worked jobs that did not have meaning for me, to a point where I am driven to join a profession that is focused on helping others.

And I have just had brain surgery.

Living a life of meaning is a reaction to all of this. This space is a place for me to record what I do the year of 2009.