A New Year

I've always been a New Years resolution writer.  I loved how you could wake up on a January morning and there it was - this empty canvas. 

I wrote my lists year in year out until some years ago when a kind of bah humbug feeling took hold, and for a couple of years, I didn't write them. But the start to the year felt a little uncelebrated, rudderless and flat. So I started again last year with just two words "worry less." 

This year the list is long and varied and instead of resolutions, I called it 'Hopes for 2016.' I liked the looser feeling it evoked. Possibilities with a perhaps tossed in.

A few of them:

Just be more

Be in the sun rising

Be as the story unfolds and gets written

Be as the hard time becomes another day and a new chance

Be grateful and hopeful and loving and glad.