Resolute

Pay attention to your life. Move some. Drink less. Eat more vegetables. Get better at correspondence. Write more. Write more. Take more pictures. Don't smoke. Love your husband. Listen to your children. Take the dog for a walk. Write more. Buck up. Organize. Move.

Love your children till it breaks your heart. Put it back together and break it again, then understand what it means to love them. Avoid violence in movies/fiction/news media because it hits too close to home. See it anyway and love them harder. Harder. No, harder.

Fail at everything. F*ck it up really badly, then come back and do better. Hurt your daughter's feelings and dismiss your husband. Let the baby cry too long. Miss deadlines at work, and lose sleep because you're too stubborn to lay down. There, you failed.

Now stop. Don't slow down; stop. Breathe. Try again.

I resolve to keep failing. I resolve to keep learning from my failures.