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!)
...Barbara, thanks for this wonderful post. May you fill your 365 pages with exciting adventures.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for wonderful adventures. So far this year I have gone back to sleep for an extra hour. Good rest!
DeleteThanks for a great post! Wishing you peace, prosperity, and good health through-out 2026.
ReplyDeleteInitially entered 1016.........is my brain trying to sen a message?ðŸ¤
Thanks Suzi, so glad we are blog (and FB) friends! And I am glad it's not 1016!
DeleteI hope you ride the rabbit well through another year.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who can stay on a rabbit doesn't include me! They are such runners and can escape just about anything. I'll take an imaginary horse ride, thank yuo very much.
DeleteHappy New Year and White Rabbits!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'm reminded of following the white rabbit with Alice. Boy did she get into trouble. I'll just watch from my arm chair!
DeleteLots of good quotes. You and my oldest brother share the same birth year. His 84th is tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteMay you have a good new year..and here's to the Chinese new year on February 17.
ReplyDeleteThe year of the Snake (me) now... sloughing the old skin, getting rid of unneeded encumbrances..and into the Year of the Fire Horse (like my dad who would have been 96 this year)..going forward, grabbing those chances and making the best of them
As always, you have given me images to think about and words to ponder. Thank you, once again.
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