I’m wishing us a sweet, healthy, happy, sustainable, peaceful new year.
Let it be filled with delight, spaciousness, ease, grace, color, and endless surprises of the good kind. Time in the hammock. Good snacks. And really great costumes.
I would like to see what I’m tripping over, interact consciously with the parts of me who are in pain, and ask useful questions.
This year I want to approach the world with curiosity.
And appreciation. To cultivate a lovingly-alert receptivity to the good.
May I want what I want, and be okay with the wanting.
Or — if that doesn’t work for me in any given moment, may I be okay with the not-being-okay while I’m working on it.
And may these things come true for you as well, if you want them.
Shana tova u’metuka.
Best year ever. May it be so.
Yes, it’s Rosh HaShana. Again. Also known as… argh, crap, happy new year!
Also also also known as the month of new beginnings.
And every year I have to link to this Onion article because it makes me giggle uncontrollably. Tradition!
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Happy New Year! Loving the wishes – thank you 🙂
L’shana tova, Havi! Thank you for all that you do to make the world — and my own personal world — a sweeter place to be.
L’shana tova! Eat some challah for me!
Shana tova u’metuka!
And now, leaving the metaphorical river to go off to the actual river to cast away things I no longer need to hold. (It’s like the magical elevator shaft, except a big, flowing body of water. My favorite part of the holiday.)
Oh, Havi, Happy New Year!
I’ve just started reading your blog… I don’t even remember how it found it.
It’s wonderful.
Every article links to something else, and something else *again*, and so on.. And it all resonates. And things are coming unstuck..
Just wanted to thank you. And Selma:)
Can’t wait to come play in person.
Love,
Barbara
(who performs with “Queen Anne’s Revenge”, a piratical vocal group, and who, at the Blackpoint Ren Faire, used to portray the niece of Grace O’Malley 🙂
Dear Havi, Happy New Year! To you all all the commenters, and lurkers, and helpful mice.
Epiphanies to all!
Happy new year !!
I read all the old posts from this-day-in-past-years and ended up throwing away a bunch of old unused articles.
Time for a new beginning.
And I wish peace for everyone and for this world in particular.
May we remember talking to each other and feeling at ease and peaceful and may we bring that peace into world.
I like the idea of a new year beginning in the autumn, when the seeds and fruits offer hope for abundance in the coming year… and the idea of casting away the old, which is so much easier to do when there isn’t any ice on the ground…
Not being Jewish, do I have to wait till January 1? I think not. MrB’s birthday is just past, and the birthday is a time for reviewing the past year and taking stock and planning for the next year.
So, I’m thinking “Hello, Year!”
This last year (thirteen months really, which appeals to me in a non-conformist, pagan kind of way) has been the most intense of my life.
A year has passed since the Major Life Implosion that had me asking one afternoon whether perhaps I was actually slightly sociopathic (are there degrees of sociopathy? At any rate I didn’t really feel all that worried about anything which was probably dissociative coping mechanism and in actuality I was probably getting stoned on stress-induced opioids… (sp?)
A year since I was looking around at the debris of my life and my heart and wondering how the hell I had got there. How come all the steps along the way had made *sense*? When really, there was NOTHING about the situation that was reflective of ME at all. My values, my principles: nope, not living those out. The advice I would be giving anyone else in my situation? Not being provided to myself, let alone heeded. Nothing that was reflective of what I actually WANTED, just compromises in a hundred different directions.
A fair bit of confusion. To say the LEAST.
So, since then, a fairly intense period of journeying back to my “real life”. To something that is congruent. Authentic. In alignment. TRUE.
Thank-you Havi, First Mate, Commenter Mice, Beloved Lurkers and everyone connected to this website which has been a Very Useful Learning and Clearing Space for me.
The best year ever – yes indeed. I wish it for all of us.
Also – The Onion article is hysterical!!! Fifty five thousand years!! No buttered bread!! I do envy the sense of belonging…. (Speaking as an ex catholic white Australian with a 200 year national heritage I’m ashamed of and a 60,000 year heritage I’m not allowed to claim as part of my identity….)
The *other* favourite part of this blog? It’s a sangha in my life like nowhere else is. Yoga sangha!! Speaking in code!! Yay!!
Happy 5772! L’shana tovah!