What does it say that last year at this time I was contemplating the same things? Simply that it is a time when we look toward the new year with hope and a desire for something better? Or does it mean, for me personally, that I haven't come very far in the past year?

Either way, there are a couple of things I posted this time last year that bear repeating.

This quote from T. Thorn Coyle:

How are you in a crisis? What are you doing to get stronger? Are you doing more yoga? Lifting more weights? Are you looking at your propensity to explode or to hide? Are you figuring out how to bolster your alternative communities into more viable networks of support? Are you learning to govern yourself? Learning to garden? Buying less? Re-using more? Are you learning not to always place the blame on other people? Are you telling your friends how much you appreciate them? Are you crying when you need to and laughing when you wish? Stopping to smell the flowers? Are you spreading beauty as far and wide as possible? Pick two from this random list, or add two of your own. But do them. Two of them. At least.

Doom only spells doom if we let it. We should throw parties in the coming year and go dancing. We should also sit longer spells in meditation and at our altars. We should make it into a wild space at least once, and support those who are defending the last of our wild spaces. We should feed strangers. We should get as physically and mentally healthy as we can.

Have what you need and need what you have. A cold wind may blow, but we can keep each other warm.

And this one from Ayn Rand:

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration of the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, and it is yours!

I'm reminded of the silly song we sang as children: This little light of mine/I'm gonna let it shine/Let it shine all the time/Way beyond the blue.

Be strong. Keep your light shining. Rejoice with those around you. Manifest the world you desire.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 10:37 AM