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Jan2

the road ahead

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“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Patti Smith

 

My friend Suzanne sent me this quotation.  I love this because it feels like a koan to me.  A puzzle box that time and curiosity will keep opening.  A series of nested matrushkas.  I am especially interested in the ways that abandon, balance and stealth intersect and overlay; in how I am dancing the dance of those three.

This photograph that I took yesterday morning feels a bit like how I am stepping into the new year.  Spacious possibility and all that is unknown.  A blank tablet that carries the cuneiform of the previous year(s).

My charge to myself is to move from feeling, intuition and trust.  To find something new every day.  More than once a day.

What are you charged with?

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Dec31

the sun on my neck

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I was outside yesterday with the dogs.  It was one of those odd balmy December days we have been having.  I was not wearing a scarf.  I felt the sun on my neck.  At first I thought it was a kinesthetic memory from a different season, summer, say, then realized it was actually the winter sun warming my neck in this deep, lovely way.  I think that sensation is a key to expressing my wishes for the new year.

 

May I feel the sun on my neck

the warmth of

fur under my hand

my daughters’ smiles

my lover’s arms

and my own eager heart

pushing into the layers of each day.

I want to thank all of you for reading and I wish each of you a most fresh and delicious New Year.