Wishing you a peaceful Jan 1st and the 364 days that will follow as 2009.
Yesterday I found myself feeling a bit sentimental about leaving 2008 behind. I feel a fondness for the year, for its contents. For me it was a year of peace coming easier than other years. Peace to me meaning flowing where our lives take us, with what are lives bring us, around boulders, down rapids and across glassy still pools.
It was a year of unexpected healing of relationships, of forgiveness, of choosing love over the gook that can build up between human beings that love each other yet become divided by misunderstanding. Those of us whose daily lives include the challenge of chronic illness all deal with relationship loss and I think many would agree that the emotional pain of losing those we love can be greater than the pain of losing our health and abilities or the physical symptoms themselves. Reconnecting and healing bring happiness in direct proportion.
This past year my oldest daughter flew off to college on strong, independent wings and home changed. I started this blog, which in a way for this homebound middle aged woman is a bit like using my wings again. Damaged by illness they don’t work too well in the world governed by gravity, yet can fly through cyberspace.
How much a year can old for each of us; impossible to fit a year’s markers in one post (and wouldn’t that be a heavy load to read!)
Yesterday I also found myself feeling a bit anxious about the arrival of a New Year; the enigma that it is. 2009 comes in today with the certainty that it will bring happiness, sorrow, challenges, successes, losses and happenings that today we can not imagine. Today we begin another 365 days of our Earth circling our Sun; us fragile, strong, innovative, perseverant creatures carrying out our daily lives, loving, hoping, dreaming, surviving… in the midst of a Universe, in the midst of this Ominous Mystery we call life.
Wishing you a peaceful, playful, healthy as possible… new year, Kerry
Beautiful, Kerry. I have had a mixed bag of emotions over this year ending while I am horizontal and a new year beginning on a cloudy note. Your words brought me a different mindset…with reflections of the past year coming back to me through your writings.
May you be blessed with another year of joy and peace.
Happy New Year, Kerry! Isn’t it interesting how we each have our own unique experiences and perspectives? I am so glad to be rid of 2008! This next year holds much promise for good changes. I hope the same for you. Take care and have a good one! Aloha, Susie
Happy New Year to you, too, Kerry!
You’re the first blogger to have some fondness for 2008. Others are glad it’s over, and look forward to the new year.
For me, 2008 will be the year Greed Self-Destructed.
All the best!
Thank you Renee for your kind words and wishes. I’m glad that this post spoke to you where you were at on that difficult day. Your writing so often brings comfort and inspiration to me.
Susie, yes it’s interesting how each of us look at things differently!
Square Peg Guy, “Greed Self-Destructed”–accurate, creative term for the downfall of our economy.
What a year historically that included the struggle of the economic downturn (and consequential pain of foreclosures, bankruptcy and unemployment for too many).
At the same time as a country we triumphed in making history and electing the first African American President of the USA.
I always find interesting the companionship of bad and good, hardship and wisdom, setbacks and successes etc…
So it seems to me that each year holds both…some in uneven proportions…which is most likely why some bid a happy good-bye to 2008 and others (like myself) a reluctant farewell.
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and wishes for the New Year. Kerry