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Weekend Coffee Share (1/1/17)

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If we were having egg nog, I’d wish you a hopeful, healthy and safe New Year!

I have issues with wishing for happiness, but perhaps we can postulate that if one has hope, health and a sense of safety, there’s a good chance they can find happiness as well.

Oh, the egg nog ran out last night. No problem, I’ve got coffee brewing as we speak.

If we were having freshly brewed coffee, I’d tell you I’ve vowed to put 2016 behind me come this year. No ruminating on fears, disappointments, anger, sadness and doomsday prophesizing. I’ll try to build on the many, many positive moments of last year.

So here is a partial list of what I am wishing for and anticipating in 2017:

♦  The continued blessing of sharing my life with a loving family, companionable pets, and myriad hand tools and DIY project supplies.

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♦ Opportunities to contribute to preserving and expanding the beauty and health of this planet.

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♦ Tenacity to hold to an ethical, honorable and selfless ethos, such that our society can rise above the mires of that prior year I said I wouldn’t ruminate upon (hint: 2016).

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Oh, alright…

♦ ♦ ♦  I also wish for happiness for all! ♦ ♦ ♦ 

Welcome to 2017! Let’s make it a year to cherish!

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Wow! 2016 is here already!

I suppose I made some resolutions for last year, but having forgotten what they were, I can neither celebrate my successes nor berate my shortcomings. And I’m content with that.

I think contentment was pretty much my theme for last year, and in that regard 2015 was quite fulfilling.

 

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Cute canine couched on a crimson coverlet contentedly contemplating current conditions.

For 2016, I am foregoing the whole New Year’s resolution exercise, and in its place I’m using an idea that I picked up on The Tao of Dana blog. I’m going to consciously choose a new overlying theme for the coming year. That way it doesn’t become something to flog myself over for not completing. It’s just a gentle nudge in the direction I want to travel.

So what should my 2016 theme be? I’ll ponder that question in the next few days. And I’ll write it down and post it somewhere so I won’t forget.

But for now, I’m content to just let the new year unfold as it will.

Wishing you the best for 2016!

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