the time of the new year gives many opportunities of choosing to celebrate the turning of the year dial on the old analogue calendar. over the years i’ve been to parties that i’ve arrived at both early and late, had quiet evenings in with a loved one and had very large evenings that started in a pub and continued well into the daylight.
for me the best ones have been when nothing special particularly happened at midnight.
for years i had a thing that i did at midnight that acted as a guard for me in the coming year, a superstition. i realised that actually what ever happened at midnight and the minutes there after was not going to become a barometer for the rest of the year. the moment of midnight new years eve was about the moment at moment at new years eve.
on the new years eves when i stayed in and watched tv it struck me tv is really ill equipped to deal with the dial of date slipping on another digit.
this year i spent new year’s eve in a way i had not done before and it was a very enjoyable evening. last night i slept off new years eve and today i’m still levelling out after all the excitement of conversation.
with a new year comes a new cleanliness of mind.
my commitment to my forest school leader training reaches another week of focus in less than a month. i feel grounded and ready for what that brings forth.
my commitment to myself lays in front of me as much time as i need to explore my time of solo expression. as it begins now there are many decisions waiting to be made as i carve out the initial form. beyond that lays time of ordering the outcomes of the actions of the cleanliness of mind.
