This year...

has been a good one for me, again

No, it's not December 31, I know,

but for me a new year of my life has started today!!

Last year has given me:

- beauty

while living near the ocean on a Caribbean island,

by travelling in foreign countrysides, by meeting lovely people

- creativity

while working in my studio, in sewing, painting, working with paper and glue; this all being possible

because I am free to spend the days as I want to

- inspiration

through the internet, the blogging community, through reading and often simply looking around and being

aware

- health

probably the most valuable of all. I am so glad with my body, that everything 'works' in the

proper way, that it serves me so I can do what I want, without being held back by physical problems

and most of all

- love

from the love of my life, whom I married 37 years ago, from my three wonderful

children, from my friends both in Holland and on the island

I am so grateful for that, happy birthday to me and:

THANKS ALL OF YOU! 

Peyto Lake, July 2009

Banff National Park

Canada