“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Alice in Wonderland/Lewis Carroll
I have been thinking about what I am going to write for my first post of the New Year. I thought of writing about gratitude, I am so very grateful for my life as it is. The first thing I say when I wake up in the morning and before I meditate is “thank you.” I never lose sight of how fortunate I am. I also thought I might write about setting my intentions. Dr. Wayne Dyer has been a guiding force in my life for over 25 years. He and others, like Maryanne Williamson, have been the co-architects of the on-going renovation of Kate.
But when I ran across this quote, which was totally misfiled in a folder I was cleaning out for the New Year. It was an aha/yes moment and I knew I wanted to write not only about ‘the impossible things,’ but about the innocence of possibility. I think at a certain stage in our lives the impossible things get covered over by the weight of time and we lose sight of our youthful naiveté. We get old with ourselves.
I am not going to go into how to regain your optimism or your belief in the impossible things that life can deliver to us. I am just going to say that all things are delivered with a purpose to help us grow, be happy, love, and delight in being alive. We have to continually remind ourselves of this.
With that said. I am going to follow the queens’ advice and look for the impossible things in this new year. So I guess I do have a New Year’s resolution. Which is to recapture a little innocence, mix in a bit of magic, blend with multiple doses of gratitude, and set my intention for a New Year beyond compare. And I think what I will receive in return will be the belief that most things are possible when you are ‘young at heart.’
Happy New Year darling friends and thank you for dropping by Platinum Boomer and helping me lay the foundation for this blog which is the first item on the list of “six impossible things before breakfast.”
8 Comments
Carol
January 5, 2014 at 9:17 pm….I still don’t know what I want to be when grow up!
kate granado
January 11, 2014 at 4:05 pmcarol your comment is what really makes life more interesting. does the old paradigm of going for the ‘gold watch’ really make us grown up? and do we ever really ‘grow up.’ yes, we get taller and most of us more mature, but we always continue to grow and that is the most important thing. if i were to mimic the Queen, i could say “why i have had seven immpossibly fabulous careers before i was sixty!” and i am not finished yet!
carol, promise me you won’t completley let your heart and imagination grow up….thanks so much for your comment.
Shawnda
January 5, 2014 at 7:20 pmThe meme of the impossible becoming reality has returned daily in my life in various ways since the New Year! Sam read me an article last night about how fertile science is with the possibility of new discoveries right now. The article also served as a reminder to how the inventions of the last decades would have been deemed “impossible” a century or even a decade earlier (man flying to the moon for example). On the Jan. 1st I discovered a random book deep in our book shelf to read-aloud to our kids (I have no idea where this old book came from or how it found itself on our book shelf- I found it when doing my new years gutting of the house) about a Dr. Savant who is using the imagination of children to find the supposed extinct Whangdoodles in Whangdoodle Land. A book that so far has us all believing that anything you can imagine can in fact become true.
How apropos that you write about channeling the innocence of childhood dreams to make our adult dreams a reality in your blog. It inspired me to find this quote by Vince Lombardi, “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” And this one that gives no excuse for uttering the word “impossible,” “Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” – Robert A. Heinlein
Cheers! May all your impossibles come to fruition even beyond your wildest dreams!
-Shawnda
kate granado
January 11, 2014 at 4:15 pmshawnda, your comment is worth a post, thank you so much for sharing it with us. i think i would like to work on Dr. Savant’s team and help discover Whangdoodle Land. we all become so serious with ourselves and at times we forget to spread our wings and take flight with our imagination. we only find the impossible when we open ourselves up to flight! i think as adults it might do us well to re-read Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan. I think we might be amazed at the insights we would discover.
love you
Cheryl Wright
January 4, 2014 at 7:17 pmI love the idea of thinking of what’s possible without constraints. I live the impossible EVERYDAY! I am with you on this one for sure. But then, I’m always with you!
kate granado
January 11, 2014 at 4:34 pmcheryl, i love the whole realm of mind over matter! with a little imagination, a little belielf and a sense of adventure we could begin to crumble the walls of contraints that we have built around ourselves. i just mentioned in another response the childrens books we should all re-read i am going to make a “gotta read it” list and i am going to start with the kings of the imagination with begets the impossible everyday!
and i am always with you…
Sandra Axelrod
January 2, 2014 at 6:52 pmYou will always be young at heart. Happy 2014! I love you.
kate granado
January 11, 2014 at 8:08 pmmy heart will always be young because of all the special people in my life and you are one of them!
k.