My New Year’s Resolution (yes I actually made one)

New Year’s resolutions. What to say about them? The one thing is that I usually don’t have anything to do with them. And I have not done one for many years. I would find that I would try to make a resolution and then I wouldn’t follow through because of one thing or another. It could have been a situation or just a plain lack of will that kept me from do so.

Many, if not most people, as they turn to the New Year, have a feeling that they need to change something about their lives. Many times it is that they want better health. Other times it is to help more people, animals or causes. And then it could be to spend less and to save more money. Another is to waste less and conserve more. It could be to go back to and finish school. I listed the prior because these have been resolutions that I have personally broken in the past. I still have them as goals, but, they can either take a lot of time or the current situation is where I cannot reach some of these goals. Others I am in the processes of trying to attain.

As I sat here tonight thinking over, not just the year but much of my life, I came to an understanding about my past resolutions. I figured out what the problem was. I figured out why it was so hard, sometimes, to carry out my goals. The problem was complexity.

I still need to try to attain these and other unmentioned goals. However, those will take some time to finish. But this year I have chosen for me the easiest of resolutions to accomplish. Something that does not take money and time. Something that I don’t have to carry in a bag, purse or pocket. Something that I don’t have to travel to reach. Something that I don’t need to have anything at all to accomplish. Something that is and has always been with me. Something that is simple.

So here, in the earliest of the hours of the New Year, I say that my resolution for 2010 is to simply LOVE. To love more unconditionally. To love more compassionately. To give love freely without apprehension. To love all I can and cannot see. To love this entire world and all that inhabits the Earth. To accept love that is given and also to love myself. Also, to tear down any walls that may block this love. And to do all these with a great passion.

This has been the only resolution that I have made in my life that I have no doubt that I can achieve. I choose love because it is can lead to so many other beautiful things in life. Love can bring about compassion. Love can be pathways to more acceptance and tolerance between peoples. Love can help to stop the ways of greed and oppression. Love can help bring us closer to nature and start resolving many issues with our planet. And most of all Love can be the stepping stones leading us to greater peace.

With that, I will start this resolution this very moment by saying I LOVE YOU!!! I Love all who read this and those that don’t. I will not be ashamed or shy about saying I Love You. Too many times in the past have I felt embarrassed or been teased and hassled about saying so. No more. Simple as that.

In conclusion, I want to wish you all a very wonderful and happy New Year. May 2010 be a year that brings much joy to you and those around you. So from my heart to yours, may you have Love in your lives, now and in all days!!! Peace!!!

By Chieko Ross ©

The Beauty of Life (an introduction to me)

This was the only way i could think to introduce you to who i am. To let you see what is in my heart.I am not trying to say that I am the beauty of life. But how i see myself in life in this world.


The Beauty of Life
Is deep within
From the depth of heart
To the edge of skin

My heart beats
With rhythms of earth
Till the end of life
From moment of birth

I am free like hawk
With wing on wind
Yet rooted to ground
The soil my friend

My heart grows when
Things spring new
And I settle with
The morning dew

My sight is that
Of eagle eye
Salmon in creek
And cougar on high

My backbone is
The mountain spine
Standing straight
Like honored pine.

I croak with frog
Sing with wolf
Laugh with coyote
And walk on hoof

My breath is with
The easy breeze
While humming with
Honey bees

I fall with rock
Stand with bear
Skitter with fox
And run with hare

While elbows hooks
With worldly kin
My knee goes along
The river bend

My life flows along
Prairie grass to
Colorful desert
To mountain pass

My tears flow
Like cooling rain
Falling for a
World in pain

My love is that
Of peaceful dove
My hope is with
The sky above

My softness is
The horse’s nose
Wrinkling at the
The wild rose

My joy is like
The growing seed
I roll along
With tumble weed

I prowl with
The ocean’s shark
Yet listen to the
Gentle lark

My compassion is
Like mother doe
My strength is that
Of buffalo

My hearth is in
The beaver home
I walk along with
Elk on roam

My warmth is the
Little cub in den
Sleeping under
Mother’s chin

I swim beneath
The lily pond
And glide along with
Graceful swan

I play like the
Teasing dawn
And dance like
Frolicking fawn

My eyes close with
Darkening night
I dream beside
The twinkling light.

The vast lands
Are my soul
All of earth makes
Makes me whole.
By Chieko Ross in 2009 ©