A New Year's Blessing
May your body feel strong, your mind feel clear
and your heart remain open to possibility.
May you awaken with purpose in your breath
and rest at night knowing you did enough.
May opportunity meet your effort,
patience walk beside ambition,
and challenges sharpen you
without ever hardening you.
May laughter arrive often and stay awhile.
May love, old and new, grow deeper, truer.
May you give freely without losing yourself,
and receive fully, without hesitation.
And when the road bends without warning,
may you trust the strength you’ve earned
and the wisdom you carry to guide you.
May this be a year of steady growth,
honest joy, and gentle courage,
a future that feels not only hopeful,
but open and welcoming too.
~ 'A New Year's Blessing' by Spirit of a Hippie
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion. -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (1908-1986)
It's a new year, a birth of time, a beginning again. A wooden statue of a squatting woman giving birth supported by two attendants. 18th century CE, from south India, now housed at the National Museum in New Delhi
I was born in the year of the horse, 1942. No wonder I was crazy about them when a pre-teen...reading all the books, having a little white plastic horse who's saddle came off...but never being around live ones. I missed that! (Incidentally, no unicorns were mentioned while I was young, but I did have a story about Pegasus!)
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