…All Your Old Resolves
What will you be doing New Year’s Eve? To ring in 2017, I will be traveling to my home grounds, to my Midwestern roots. That means ham hocks, brown beans, and cornbread (for good luck); smoked meats and cheeses; and, a table full of family. I’ll play Shanghai rummy until the clock strikes midnight and toast to “the new” with Welch’s sparkling grape juice. This is all followed up outside with firecrackers, air horns, and banging on cast iron pans. What can I say…it’s family tradition.
But what will you resolve to do? Personally, I don’t believe in reserving resolutions for just one time a year. Instead, I believe in resolutions all year long. So much has happened over the past year, and honestly, I couldn’t have done it without setting goals and resolving to do better and be better as a person. To act with intention. To be progressive. Yes, the world is a big place, but as my family would say, try and take care of your corner of the world as best as you can.
Here’s a list I have compiled of what I resolve to do (so far) for the beginning of 2017:
Be more charitable
Publish a book or two
Do laundry once a week
Check off a few more of my life goals
Grow more spiritually
Eat fewer donuts (for real, guys)
Spend more time outdoors
Wash, dry, AND put away the dishes
Eat more healthily
Be more involved in my community
Create with more intention
Cheers to progressing ourselves and humanity in 2017!
Emily A. Dustman
Founder & Creative Director
