Dec 01 2008
Brave new month
A fresh month, a fresh start at getting around to all those things that I promised myself I would start last month. Oh, and the months before. Wait a minute, weren’t all these things New Year’s Resolutions? NO; in fact New Years’ (plural) Resolutions. Great - I can put them all off again until next month/year! Rats, I promised wosname from Mental Health Humo(u)r that I would blog cogently on a mental health topic and I can’t let him down, can I?
Cautionary tales of inflatable children drift through my mind’s eye; but that’s another story for another day.
Well, what do we have to start with? A long list of broken or ignored resolutions trailing back to the primordial soup, or so it feels.
I can’t even remember what all of this year’s list were - let me see … ferrets through archived documents … tada! … found them!!
Resolutions 2008
Promote GardenLend.co.uk and get it running at full steam to help rescue neglected gardens and provide opportunities to those without gardens.
Put more effort into the allotment, growing a wider range of vegetables, as well as keeping the weeds down a bit more.
Get more people to join and use Freecycle.org, moderating and promoting my local group (Merton) and helping save stuff from landfill sites.
Promote and spend more time moderating and posting on the Borderline Personality Disorder & Family group to “calm the heat between those with Borderline Personality Disorder and those who can’t not love them.”
Write more blog entries.
Regularise the times and days of my book-sorting efforts at my local branch of Scope.
Help save the Henderson Hospital which offers unique help to people with complex mental health problems – please sign the petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Savethehendo
See my various web projects through to completion.
Do something victorious each day.
Looking back, I think “a mixed bag” would be the best overall judgement on how well these goals have been achieved.There were othe ones too: to “get through” the latest tranche of psychotherapy; to complete the legal action I had taken out against a local authority for dereliction of duty of (my) care; to write my autiobiography - having given up on it (and myself) umpteen times before; to be a success in whatever I do. There were probably quite a few more made on a daily (hourly? minutely? is that a word in that context?) basis, but I’m sure that more important things have fluttered through my head since then.So, after all that - and more - today is (another) “Day 1″, whereupon I shall set about putting both the world and myself to rights. This blog is the first step, as I don’t feel it is quite so much a case of “shouting into the dark” as I once did. People have listened to me talking about my experiences (both good and ill) and - more importantly - believed me; so what must I do next?
Write it down and keep writing.
That, my New Resolution, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
Thanks, Uncle Crow, but now I must set about the Great Work - more tomorrow!
