Behold this day, for it is yours to make.
Quote: BLACK ELK
Image: David Kanigan
Tag: New Year
Promises to be kinder…
Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.
And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest,
before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.
Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.
I wish you peace in 2023.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.
Quote: ‘Life: Poems to help navigate life’s many twists & turns’
by Donna Ashworth (Amazon)
Art: Demelsa Haughton Illustration
#newyear #2023
thank you, Gail Spach
New Year
“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
may it be so.
Quote:
new year – new day
Finish every day and be done with it…
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
To-morrow is a new day;
you shall begin it well and serenely,
and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
In preparation for tomorrow, I am grateful for Emerson’s wisdom. It is a reminder for all of us to begin each day open handed and ready to receive all the day has to give.
As the sun sets on 2019 I treasure the moments, the memories and grieve the losses. Like the view in the image above, I will wake tomorrow knowing a new year stretches out in front of me – in front of all of us.
The year will fill soon enough. Begin it well.
Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Neven Krcmarek
quote and image from Gratefulness.org
A New Year…
Do everything as far as you can
for love and you will see what you are capable of!
One can make more progress this way in a year,
than in ten by the way of fear.
St. Mary Euphrasia
from Gratefulness.org
Carrie's Bench 
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