Yes, I make resolutions. I like fresh starts. And, once the celebratory noshing and imbibing are over, we have a perfect opportunity to start anew.I won't bore you with the particulars, but of course, I resolve to eat better in 2010. I do this every year. One year I added more water to my diet. This year, I gave up most desserts, in part our of an allergic reaction to wheat, in part because for the most part desserts have lost their appeal. They will immediately regain their appeal the next time I visit Paris.
I have yet to find a way to give up potato chips. Why even try?
This is the year - 2010 is - that I eat lower on the food chain. I plan to eat more salads and more raw foods. Since I adore salads, that should be no problem.
This is also the year I take more time for myself. Allow me to explain: I simply find it hard to take a day off. I have to leave town to do so, and unless I am at least 150 miles from home, I am calling the office frequently.
This will be the year I will find time to savor more of those wonderful moments of enchantment. You know them when they happen: A flock of cedar waxwings in the flowering crab tree, an owl in the tree outside my window, a gaggle of geese along the shore or the pungent aroma of a smokehouse along a country road. I will stop and enjoy and breathe deeply of life.
I will start tomorrow morning with a visit to the winter farm market. I am on the lookout for herbs and whatever else might be on hand. More often than not, a visit to the farm market is sheer enchantment no matter what time of year.
The photo above was taken at the Saturday market in Cahors in September 2008. The morning was frosty, and as you can see the leaves had begun to fall.
What will you savor in 2010?
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Always, always is a resolve to eat better. To try new things. To take each day and seize it as if it were my last. To love more. To forgive quickly. To extend mercy and grace where mercy and grace are not necessarily deserved. Yes, I too, am savoring a fresh start!
Yes, Cyn, once again we agree totally.
Happy New Year, Mimi!
I'm going to try (Try) to do things I enjoy instead of all the things I think I should.... Come and sign your name in the dust in my house ;-))
That's the spirit, Katie. I am really missing France just now, and hoping to at least get to Paris in the fall.
What a lovely post. And I noticed the "Charcuterie de l'Aveyron" on the truck! Funny I should drop in on that one...
I'm not making a lot of resolutions this year, but I do want to get back to a reasonable participation in blogging and also organize my time better at work. Nothing too lofty..
Happy New Year to you! And let's hear it for dust...
I'm with you, Betty, and I thought about you when I posted this photo. I hoped you would pay a visit!
I have the necessity to eat more S.O.L.E. food - sustainable, organic, local and ethical. That, for me, is eating better.
And I love what Cyn said - to extend mercy and grace where mercy and grace are not necessarily deserved. That's a worthy goal.
A good reminder, Toni. In fact, I am involved in the beginnings of an Eat Local effort.
Extending mercy and grace is a good goal, but often a tough one to reach.
I really need to lurk more on my own blog to be reminded of such things...
Good resolutions, Mimi. I have just two this year, aside from living an all-round better life, they are:
Take a camera/photography class; maybe two.
Go to two blogger conferences (I've not been to one yet.) They don't have to be big, just packed with learnin'.
I figure I'm not going to get blog-smarter by sitting at my computer. It's time to jump into the lake, so to speak.
Christine, what a good idea! I envy you those promises to yourself. For me, 2010 is likely to be a close to home year, but maybe in 2011...
This picture of that ''Camionette de charcutier'' at the Cahors farmer's market reminds me of the truck where I bought marvelous country paté, saucisson sec and mountain goat cheeese in the little town where I grew up (Saint Hippolyte du Fort)when I visited again 2 years ago. Like yourself I am very nostalgic...
Have a great year, Mimi,and a satisfying one even if it has to be gluten-free....
I love those little trucks full of goodies - they enchant me just as the Good Humor man always did when I was a child. And still does, I should add: The ice cream wagon on our side of town plays reggae!
I resolved nothing this year. Maybe I should have. I could lose 10 pounds, maybe more. Or I could resolve to take that trip to Europe. However I know that won't happen in 2010. Maybe in a future year....So, yeah I guess I ought to just lose the weight....
Lose weight first, then travel. Last year at CDG in Paris, my husband's pullman was overweight and we had to pay more to have a "heavy" sticker slapped on it. I was just grateful it was not me.
I like your resolutions! I don't make them myself but have taken on your idea of eating more salads and raw foods.
For instance, unpasteurized cheese! :)
Happy New Year!
Let me know how that works out, LouLou. I have been doing OK so far.
Loved the post on officially "becoming French."
So far so good!
I resolve to lose weight this year by sticking to my diet. :)
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