We all have dreams, and sometimes they seem out of reach. Does your dream seem so impossible that you dismiss it? Are you afraid to even consider it for fear of being disappointed? Mary Manin Morrissey encourages you to begin "by paying attention to your own discontent and your own longings. That's how life speaks to us."

I am so grateful. I am one of the lucky ones whose "spiritual" work and "bread 'n' butter" work is one and the same so much so, that to call what I do "work" in truly a misnomer, for it is "high play." This does not mean that I don't have my challenges, for I surely do.

January holds the seeds of hope for a new year, but it can also be a time of mixed blessings. Winter darkness circles 'round, holiday bills begin to come due, and New Year's resolutions set up a tug of war between willpower and complacency. This year, on top of the usual January changeovers, there's the Y2K debacle, which has arrived at last, like a long-lost relative who now stands on your doorstep, demanding a place to stay.

The universal year 2000 resonates with the frequency of the number 2 (2+0+0+0=2). The main themes of this year are Reflection, Cooperation, and Harmonization. We can achieve a great deal this year by bringing our lives into greater balance and harmony and through working in cooperation with others. In a "two" year, we learn to harmonize with life so that it becomes a cooperative effort rather than just an individual one.

It's easy for me to spend time focusing on what I don't want. I spend lots of time searching articles and ads for mistakes, looking for incomplete transactions, and finding solutions to life's little annoyances. It seems quite natural to me to generate a list of what I don't want. What sometimes takes more work is keeping my list of what I do want up to date.