Since we like to use nature’s seasonal changes as arbitrary times for beginnings and endings, I wrote a blog last week on completions, suggesting that the close of the year was a good time to close out unfinished business. By the same token I am using this week’s blog as a good time for regeneration. We are into a brand new year, which is a time for beginnings. Now some of us dragging a little mileage behind us may think that there may not be much that is new to us anymore, but I say no to this thinking. Every time we get up in the morning (or whatever passes for morning) we are into a new, unrepeatable day. Yesterday’s feet-on-the-ground don’t count anymore. Today’s feat (pun intended) always contains something as yet unknown to be lived.
Most priceless gift...
Are we thinking of those who love and care about us because of the many gifts of ourselves that we have given over time? Not necessarily because of what we have done but because of who we are. As she grew older, my sainted mother frequently mourned the things she could no longer do and often felt she was useless. No matter what her children said, she seemed not to realize that simply having her in our lives was enough for us. Hers was a line of thinking I do not recommend, for it tends to set aside the most priceless gift we have to give.
All-tingly...
We cannot be any more present than we are at this moment, so let us be very excitably and all-tingly present. Even as the new year begins to lay itself out in both knowable and unknowable events and possibilities, we can welcome them as adventures that are ours, or we can blunt their edges with front-loaded disinterest and dismay. I don’t recommend this either. Who knows what we might miss?
Ready or not...
2016 is here, unknown, unlived, a lifetime in waiting. Ready or not, so are we!
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