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The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess and celebrate, and to look forward and gauge where I want or need to go next.
Looking back through my blog posts, I see three major themes: travel, art, and writing.
Travel
It started with A Slice of San Francisco and a look at the Fascinating Faces and Divine Bodies at the Asian Art Museum.
Then I took a sharp turn left turn in Romancing Europe. I wrote about Dancing through Time & Space, and Tasting Life Twice. I took readers on a tour through Segovia and Bruges, and into the Musee d’Orsay, the Casa Battlo and Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, and Down the Rabbit Hole with Salvador Dali.
Art
Art was a big theme with all the museums I visited, but also on a personal note with my own painting. I heralded my New Home Studio with a tour, and bragged about my first public recognition for my art. I showed off Flowing Leaves, Tangled Limbs, Folding Hills, and Trees and More Trees.
My most popular post this year was the Art of Living, A Reminder.
Writing
I started off in January with a post on why I write in Walking each Other Home. In May I celebrated finding an agent for my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth in Pinch Me! In June I wrote about Following the Yellow-Brick Road to publishing, and in December I wrote about Happy and not so happy Endings in novel writing and life. In this last post and an earlier one on A Walk on the Wild Side, another theme that weaves through the underside of much of my writing in one way or another surfaces, the heartbreak of addiction.
A Look Ahead – What I Want Most
A happy ending for my son.
A happy ending for my novel.
More novel-writing, more painting, more blogging.
More artful living.
More Love. Lots and lots of love, for all of us.
A happy new year to you all!
Deborah J. Brasket 
More! Happy 2019. I did my resolutions, too, but debunked them 😉! https://stevieszabad.com/2018/12/30/new-year-resolutions-debunked/
I enjoyed you debunking! All the best to you this new year.
Happy New year
Thank you!
And a Happy New Year to you as well, Deborah. Thank you for sharing your most recent visions and layering your entry with links to highlights of 2018. I was inspired by your new studio and the art you have been making this past year.
Thank you, David. My studio no longer looks like the photos I shared. Time for a New Year de-cluttering session!
Looks like you’ve had an amazingly productive year!!! Wishing you continued creativity in all its various forms. Happy New Year!
Wishing you all the best too, Ken!
It sounds like you’ve had a wonderful year full of art, travel, and writing. Kudos to you Deborah. May 2019 be full of more love and thriving.
More love and thriving, yes indeed. Wishing you the same, Brad.
Thank you. 🙂
From caring comes courage. Lao Tzu
Here’s to a very deep caring in all we do in 2019, Deborah. All the best.
I’m all for that. Thank you Anthony. All the best to you too.
I have a feeling lots of love will come your way in 2019, Deborah. Looking forward to more of your thought provoking posts next year.
I’m looking forward to yours as well, Susanne! Happy new year.
Happy new year to you and yours and your desires!
Thank you so much, Elizabeth. Wishing you and yours the very best too.