Happy New Year, friends!
As I mentioned in my Lightning Round post yesterday, it is my intention to meet this new year . . . gently. So I woke early this morning, and sat with my coffee in the glow of the twinkle lights, JoJo at my feet. (It’s her 12th birthday today, so I gave her some extra pets and lots of attention.) I meditated. Did the Wordle. Took a look at a new stitching piece I plan to start later today. Sipped more coffee. Now I’m headed off to do some yoga.
I wish you all an equally peace-filled, gentle beginning to this new day . . . in this new year.
Be kind.
Lead with gentleness.
Look for joy.
Happy New Year!
“Great ideas…come into the world as gently as doves…if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar…a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.”
— Albert Camus
Happy New Year, Kym! My New Year is starting with a fresh loaf of sourdough bread! And some poetry… with Ted Kooser. (and a little Downy Woodpecker was my first bird!!) All lovely starts to any day, but today it feels perfect!
I’m waking up with Ted Kooser, too, and it’s lovely. I still have to do the Wordle and get ready to visit Ryan for lunch but I’m lucky enough to have a gentle day. Happy Birthday JoJo!
That sounds like the perfect way to start the new year and all the mornings to come.
Happy New Year! I’m planning a bit of Yoga with Adrienne a little later today. (I’ve haven’t been practicing for a while (a long while!) and am looking forward to gently gliding back into it.
That sounds like a truly gentle way to start the year and I love it! Happy New Year! I’ll be watching The Rose Parade shortly, it’s one of my favorite traditions about this day. I really (really really) want to be there in person some day.
I hope you are able to find this type of start to every morning this year, Kym. I am sitting in front of my huge windows watching the birds and the squirrels eat the breakfast I provided this morning. I have plans to be all about me today. Some exercise, some knitting/stitching, some reflection, all mixed with a lot of gratitude. Happy New Year!
What a lovely way to start the new day, the new year. May you have such a gentle start each day this year. I walked out into our yard to put peanuts out for the deer (they were watching me from the bog are), but something spooked them when I went out and all 6 of them ran off! Oh well, the peanuts are waiting for them. I’m enjoying a lazy day and plan to knit, stitch and read. Oh, and listen to the New Year’s concert from Vienna.
What a lovely posture for this new year, Kym – thank you!
Happy New Year! You’re already off to a great start.
Happy new year and happy birthday to Goodest Girl JoJo! Sounds like you’ve kicked off 2025 in a great way.
Happy New Year!
What a lovely gentle start to this year. I hope the rest of your day was equally as peaceful. Happy New Year.
Instead of nightly reading these days, I wake up to blogs and other Internet happenings so am usually around 24 hours behind your posts which makes this year’s Happy New Year wish to you feel rather …wrenching. But I wanted to say that I can’t believe that Jojo is 12 already! Thanks to knitting blog lists back then, I discovered you in the days of Jenny before Jojo was even a gleam in some Labrador’s eye. It has been a joy, a salve, and an inspiration to read your almost daily missives and see that mine were not the only thoughts, problems, triumphs, irritants, challenges and discoveries being felt out there in this world, which has helped me more than once start my day with a bit healthier perspective. So in this spirit I still wish you a Happy New Year. How we all deal with these terrible events is both personal and hugely collective and little lights from the Internet here and there might help us go forward feeling little bit less bleak in the weeks, months and years to follow. As we eventually must.
Happy New Year, Kym!!
I tend to read your posts a bunch at a time, so often I cannot comment. But I enjoy them tremendously and always learn something. Treat yourself well in the new year!
Happy new year! I had an intentionally slow day on the 1st. So slow that I forgot our dog had a birthday that day as well, oops! Stanley is 2, and growing out of his puppy phase finally. Happy birthday to Jojo!