Tag: New Year

Another Year Over

A new one just begun.

We put such faith in the start of a new year. We count on new beginnings, on making changes, on hope. It’s a funny old tradition, celebrating the New Year, but makes sense, right? At least according to the calendar, it’s a brand-new start.

Really, though, every day is a brand-new start. Each day we wake up and see the sun is a chance to alter a behavior, set another goal, share love, start a project, determine to make a difference in the days ahead. Live.

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New Year’s Revolutions

Yes, that’s not a typo, nor is it a call-to-arms. It’s merely a comment on how many times we make New Year’s resolutions with high expectations, abandon them, feel we’ve failed somehow if we don’t meet them, resolve to make new ones when the next year comes around, and round and round and round between plans and, well, plans gone awry. I, for one, have not made any New Year’s resolutions for many a new year. I recognized the circling inevitability for me many moons ago. I’m not saying resolutions aren’t a good thing, because they are, and the beginning of a new year provides a wonderful starting point—what could be so bad about that? Nothing, really. Not for many anyway, because I do know there are people out there who successfully make and keep their New Year’s resolutions, but not me. So, why I am writing this particular blog? Because I’ve made a resolution which, by coincidence, happens to fall on the holiday that brings so many of us to determined expectations and long, slow tumbles away from them. 

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