03/01/2024
My dear friend Alison Peacock shared this and I had to do the same it's just so true for me ❤️ it might resonate with some
“When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m not for a moment,
expecting this to occur,
for that is not possible,
a year must be all things.
Happiness must come and go,
like the tides and the winds,
just as sadness,
and all the emotions in between.
When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you,
a baseline of peace,
of gratitude.
Because if you can sit with these things,
for the most part,
happiness will thrive,
when it does arrive,
and sadness will know its place in the mix.
If you can nourish these things,
daily,
you will also grow hope,
for it flourishes in such soil.
And hope is the key,
to this enigmatic state
of ‘happiness’ we seek.
When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you more happy days,
than sad days,
more joy than misery,
more laughter than tears…
and the wisdom to accept,
that they all belong.
Happy new year, my friends.
Happy new year.”
Donna Ashworth
I couldn’t agree more. Life is not meant to be only happy. Nor are years. Life and you, is meant to be whole. And that means a mix of all things. As William Blake so beautifully put it:
“It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.”
So here’s wishing you hope, strength, grace & resilience through the inevitable challenges and difficulties this new year will bring. And awareness, gratitude & lightness of spirit in the brighter days & pockets of ease. Knowing that both have their place and time.
Though the Omaze house prize draw would also have its place 😁
Sending love,
Ali