NEW YEAR
New Year, new moon, new plan; what about the gratitude pitcher?
I’ve been writing every day for a coupla years — may keep it up, may cut back; staying in for now. Every day in 2017, for the first time and at the suggestion of a wise friend, I wrote down something that I am grateful for and put the slips of paper in a beautiful red glass pitcher that sits in a sunny window.
Today, January 1, was pretty busy for me. I slept late because of a late New Year’s Eve celebration at Times’s Square in New York City last night. I was not there; I watched the broadcast and pretended. I layered up and walked a coupla laps in the neighborhood. I had laundry to catch up on, and I have started a new fitness plan: on days when I do not go to exercise class, I use a fitness DVD that mixes cardio, strength, and ab work. I made a simple supper of black-eyed peas; it simmered in the crock-pot all afternoon. I also listened to a friend’s radio broadcast, and watched a double-overtime football bowl game.
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I had planned all day to get outside and take a look at the beautiful, full wolf moon. I knew it would be cold, so I bundled up and stepped out into the night. The beautiful moon was peeking at me through the big trees. A few steps to the left, and I could see the whole moon — without a limb, without a cloud. Just a shining and amazing moon — certainly a good omen for the New Year.
Because of all the events of this January 1, I did not start back through the 2017 gratitude slips; this is something my friend (from whom I got the idea) recommends. Whaaaat? Read all 365 slips on January 1, in one day? No way! I’ll be doing good to read one or two or ten slips per day. And what about writing new gratitude slips? That’ll take time, too.
So much to do, so little time!
