New nothing
Not a new thing in sight. Starting a calender year without shame.
Everything new is old.
Here is a small list of things I hope to keep on in this coming 12 months.
The garden. It’s been my most successful year gardening and I’d like to just keep that up
My yoga practice. Sure would it be nice to engage with it more, it would, but is anything about today’s date going to change that? No.
My hair. I’ve been growing it out. Almost completely back to 100 my natural color, and the length is past my shoulders finally. It’s been a year since my deeply impulsive short mullet and I’d like to keep plugging away at it.
Writing. I wrote a lot this year, finally hit print on a draft of my book of poems, wrote a few substacks, I’d like to just deepen that.
My connections: I spent a lot of time with friends and family this year. Made some new pals, and I managed a whole year without any friends or romantic breakups. I dive in fast and love big so am prone to the occasional split- Simple occupational hazard.
I traveled, I took some trips. I have some plans. Maybe even just down the street is enough if I decide to make it an adventure.
Self-investment and financial shifts. This year I changed careers. The fruit of financial investment in my education 3 winters ago when I signed up for my landscape design course. This year I have invested in myself through my yoga classes, writing classes, the foodscaper conference, Landscape design books, and I just booked a sewing class. This isn’t an advice list, this is for me, but If someone were looking for one nugget to take into the new calendar year, it would be this. Not a cent of money spent on your self-development is wasted, the returns are measurable and immeasurable and your money is a tool for carving the life you want, use it.
Being really hot. Although it was perhaps not the most active accomplishment of this year, I was objectively really hot this year, and I have every intention of continuing this and perhaps even saying it out loud more as a blessing to myself and others.
Eating really delicious food. I ate really well this year. I will continue to just snicky snack my way through life.
Release. A constant task for a control freak. A Sisyphean goal. Did it some, will do it some more. Let’s go let gooo.
