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resolve to make mistakes

1/1/2014

 
by christina britt lewis and timothy dean lewis

tequila sunrise in the office
tim just made me a tequila sunrise.
we are still in pj's.
my email auto-responder still says...

hey!
thanks for your email...
i am not here. i am somewhere else. somewhere with no phone and no computer.
ahhh...
i'll tell you all about it after 6 january 2014.
if i come back.
xo...
christina britt lewis

island hopping with people we love was the perfect way for our family to end this year. adventure together is all any of us want for christmas. we love coming home, we do. but we miss snorkeling in roatan every bit as much as we love coming home. so we are back in body, but not in spirit. and our bodies are still in pj's drinking tequila sunrises.
the lewis family snorkling | the redesign company
from this happy photo you can't even tell that we died a little this year.
in more ways than one it was the worst year of our lives.
and in more ways than we can count it was the best year of our lives.
because...

you have to die a few times in order to really live.
the shadow proves the sunshine.
there is a darkness upon us that's flooded in light.
so...

i hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes .

because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. you're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

so that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. make new mistakes. make glorious, amazing mistakes. make mistakes nobody's ever made before. don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it.

make your mistakes, next year and forever.

- neil gaiman and us
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most of us spend today reflecting on how we fall short and resolving to be better. maybe this year, reflect on how you are fabulous and resolve to keep being fabulous. it's that whole shaquille o'neal thing. (click on that and go read it. really. we'll wait...)  

we made some BIG mistakes this year.
we have made mistakes before and we will make them again.
but when you believe that things don't happen TO you, they happen FOR you...
mistakes are merely a plot twist in your life story.

for us, failure IS an option.
we are not really all that into basketball, but michael jordan said...

i've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
i've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, i've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
​i've failed over and over and over again in my life. and that is why i succeed.

so for the love of pete, let's stop beating ourselves up for letting ourselves down.

resolve to be fabulous. because you already are.

peace be with you,
tim
christina
cole 
camden
george



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