2023 was a challenging year, not only for my friends who dealt with significant and life-threatening health issues and the loss of loved ones, but also for our country and for the world. I won’t miss it.
Welcome to 2024!
Now that a New Year has begun, I wish I could express my usual 100% hopefulness for the future. But with wars continuing, hate rising, and the fractures in our country, the best I can eke out is cautious optimism.
That being said, I still wish for you and those you love, a wonderful 2024. Whatever challenges that confront you, I hope you have the strength to face them with kindness, humor, and every ounce of courage you may need.
May you know love. Not only from others, but within your heart so you may gift it to your family, friends, and everyone you meet.
May you continue to speak your truth. Let no one silence you. Everyone has the right to voice their thoughts and feelings. We all deserve to be heard.
May you find joy in each day no matter what is going on. If you can find something you’re grateful for, if you can find something to laugh about, if you can remember to love, you’ll find peace within whatever storm swirls around you.
May this be a year of renewed commitment to our growth, integrity, courage, and ability to remain engaged.
May this be the year we remember we live together on a small blue planet and we need to get along with each other. We are all citizens of Earth.
Astronauts experience the Overview Effect when looking back at our planet from space. There’s a cognitive shift seeing earth from a larger cosmic perspective of life. “The sudden recognition that we live on a planet and all the implications that brings to life on earth.” There’s a unity and coherence. There are no boundaries between countries or people. “…appreciate the concept of space ship earth. We’re all here together.”
I’m not one for resolutions because they’re too easy to break and set us up for failure. I don’t believe we ever fail if we try, but many do think that, and I wouldn’t want anyone to feel bad because they didn’t stick to a diet or declared commitment to complete a project. You be you and follow whatever path your instincts lead you.
So, as this new year begins, I want you to remember you are loved and held by the unseen and unknowable that is always with us. And add me to the something that holds your heart with love.
Ginni
I definitely feel a consistent presence of you holding my heart with love, as I hope you do in return. May 2024 take us into a better place of love, compassion, honesty, humility, progress, and transfomation as a human race.
Love this! I have 3 resolutions for the new year: 1. wake up each morning👍, 2. be grateful for being in love and being loved, and number 3, to give thanks each day for the many life events that guided me to where I am today.