As December draws toward its end and a new calendar year lies just over the horizon and out of sight, there is always a sense of anticipation. It’s a many-layered thing, too, this look forward, carrying my constant consternation at all of the possibly awful unknowns like some sort of a scratchy underlayment to the innocent eagerness to discover great and wonderful things ahead. My own small history has taught me that both will hold true to one degree or another in 2015, just as they have for every day, season, year, and chapter in my life, little speck that it is in the equally fearful and fantastic unseeable future of the whole of existence. Knowing that these things will come to be regardless of any worry or wondering on my part never stops me from either of those things.
The one very best aspect of all of this is that I find every modification does move me to grow and change. I, along with the days, seasons, years, and chapters of my storyline, can be made better by their passage if I choose to keep my mind and heart engaged. Newness ahead can mean new life ahead. Today is a day when the beautiful potential of the best kinds of change should shine most brightly on the horizon of anyone who longs for it.
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Good morning Kathryn, and thank you for this post and the wisdom that lies within.
I always get excited at the prospect of a new year….and this particular year I go into with renewed hope and anticipation.
Wishes for you and your family to enjoy the most wonderful holiday season and new year to come. Janet.:)xxx
You’re so right, Kathryn. I think the key to success, as one matures, is to remain engaged. And it’s never too late to get back into the swing things. 🙂
Wishing you and your Conductor, Kathryn, a blessed Christmas and a joy-filled New Year.
Great Christmas delight and blessings to you and la famiglia Bartolini, too, and may 2015 set new standards for your delight!
❤
Kathryn
Choosing to stay engaged; we are a
brave lot, aren’t we? Wonderful thoughts on what may come. We shall choose wisely!
I know very well that you will! A joyful year ahead, beginning with sweet and fulfilling holidays, to you, my friend.
xoxo,
Kathryn
Your post is wonderfully written, full of wisdom, positivity in abundance, and I love it 🙂
Merry Christmas and a thrilling, adventurous new year to you and your beloved ones 🙂
Beth
Thank you, Beth, and may you find immense beauty and joy throughout your holidays and the year to come!
❤ 🙂 ❤
Kathryn
Heartfelt thanks dear Kathryn, I do love your words, wishes. May they all come through for all of us…🎄🎁🎁🎁🎄
Yes, Please! 😀 (((HUGS!!!)))
Happy Holidays Kathryn and we’ll look forward to the New Year!
Absolutely! Hope your 2015 is full of grand traveling!!
xoxo,
Kathryn
Lovely words for the the new year. May it be filled with love, hope, and joy for you.
I wish you the same, in abundance!
xo