Happy New Year!
Here we are on the first day of a brand new year, bidding the old year farewell. We are turning the page on what, this past year, was a complicated, confusing and divided time, in North America
and across the globe.
In a time of profound change, how do we steady our feet on shifting sands? How do we navigate our personal journey, hold onto our peacefulness, our good hearts?
What are your thoughts on this new year dawning? What hopes or goals do you have for the coming year? How will you hold onto peace?
How do we keep trying to be good creatures in such confusing times?
These are rhetorical questions, pondering the imponderable, and each of us will answer differently. For me, peace and comfort always lies in the beauty of the natural world, which lives according to its own rhythm, no matter what we humans are doing.
Please feel welcome to link a poem, old or new, that arises from contemplating the year ahead. Sometimes the best we can do is write our hope - or our sadness - into a poem.
