I’m confident that almost everyone reading this post will agree that 2018 has been a strange year. Between the collective craziness broadcast unceasingly by our drama-mongering media and the personal journeys we’ve all traversed individually, this year has left me repeatedly feeling like I haven’t quite been able to locate myself on the collectively-agreed-upon time/space continuum.
So more than usual, even for me, I turned inwardly this year. I stopped writing, or at least writing that I was willing to share. I immersed myself in books – more books than I’ve ever read before in one year. And I searched for snippets of shrewdness from wisdom keepers across time and cultures, looking to see what holds relevance for me and what is simply a paradigm that I no longer wish to endorse with my attention and focus.
Since late October when Robyn released her new album, her song Honey has been on constant spin around here. More than just my favorite song of the year, I think I’ll be carrying it forward as some sort of life anthem – how we can carry sweetness for one another. More and always more, I want to lean fully into love and kindness and doing my best to nurture the goodness in this world and not contribute to visioning misery and despair.
I’m thinking 2018 was a year of filling my well and stocking my store so that I’m ready for all that 2019 calls us forward into. I fiercely want to invite us all into awareness of our sovereignty and our responsibility to create what we want instead of complaining about what we don’t.
I know for many this year was a time of great strain and distress, and for all that have felt that burden, I send you love and wish for you a balm of peace as we close the door of what has been 2018.
Of one thing I am most certain, I agree whole-heartedly with Hafiz who reminded us
“A thousand times I have ascertained and
found it to be true:
The affairs of this world are really nothing
into nothing,
Still though,
we should dance.”
Let us dance as we close out 2018, and let us definitely dance as we step over the threshold into 2019. And may we all find the blessings we seek, and celebrate those we have found.
Thanks for sharing this lovely sentiment! I love the Hafiz poem, and I will check out Robyn’s new album. Poetry, music, and kind words go far to help us cope in these challenging times–and dancing, too, of course!
Happy New Year!
Yes, yes, yes to poetry, music, kind words and dancing! I hope there is always more room for those things in our world and our lives. Wishing you a year of great blossoming and joy Susan!
Happiest of New Years to you, Deborah. I have been missing seeing your posts, but totally understand the need to turn inward occasionally. My word of the year for 2019 is Dance!
What a fabulous word Janet – I can imagine what delight it will bring you in 2019! Wishing you all the best, and I look forward to be back in connection again.
Hari om
Deborah, what a joy to see your writing on my screen today…with hand heart you were strong in my thoughts this last weekend! May 2019 bring you more to us but even more to yourself!!! Having broken my wrist during this year, there has been cause to pause, also, and to reassess. We get no younger but I do pray we get wiser. Sending love and light. YAM xx
As always thank you for your kind thoughts and words Yamini. There are so many gifts (and challenges as well) in those unexpected pauses aren’t there? But here’s to ever-growing wisdom and capacity to share light and love. Wishing you a most wonderful 2019.
Let us dance indeed. This year has been full of big changes for me–some positive and some heartbreakingly negative. I’ve had trouble finding my footing and my sense of security, but will always try to dance, both physically and metaphorically. My best in 2019 for you!
My best to you as well Margaret – may 2019 bring you much joy and many happy dances.
Blessings, Starlight strewn paths ahead and dancing… Fierce Sovereignty and creating a glorious unfolding of our most glorious desires….. PS, Love You!
I love your visioning – and I love you too! Happy 2019.
all best wishes Deborah for this year -may all that has been brewing now spill out in the sweetest way possible.
What a lovely wish/blessing Susan – thank you! May 2019 bring you limitless goodness!
RIGHT ON…LOVE AND PEACE AND GREAT JOY TO ALL…with GOOD HEALTH IN 2019!!! WE ARE ONE!!! LET’S ACT LIKE IT!!! And Deborah, “Carmen Miranda” is having a grand time on my work desk right now…THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!
I love your rallying cry Vicki – a perfect invitation for 2019! And I’m glad the zine arrived in your mailbox – I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks for your December 31st musings, Deborah. I hope you landed safely in 2019. It has been a bumpy ride for us as well last year, but I will join you wholeheartedly in this new year. Let’s step into a steady golden stream of lovely and sweetly flowing honey to stick to this year – to remind us of the sweetness in life that is always there for us! And if we forget we only have to put two (or more) fingers into the stream and get our lips sticky with the honey’s sweetness…
Love,
Karin
Oh Karin – what a beautiful (and delicious!) sentiment – count me 100% in there with you. And may we create a most wonderful 2019 for ourselves and all those around us.