Fill up to Spill out

One of my very favorite movies that I have watched at least a hundred times is Sweet Home Alabama .  As Melanie (played by Reese Witherspoon) goes back home to Alabama to confront her past, so she can marry her new and dreamy boyfriend from New York City (played by Patrick Dempsey), she discovers that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.  Her first love Jake reminds her one evening that she can have roots AND wings... she can have BOTH.   As we start a new year, we see so many posts about New Year, New You!  New Year, New Goals and Dreams!  As a long-time dreamer and goal-setter and as someone who is always looking to learn and grow and become a better version of myself, I am also reminded by this movie that we can have BOTH.  We can be this AND that.  We can have deep, deep roots AND also wings that fly.   For example... I can be deeply rooted in my country upbringing AND choose to live in a larger...