A New Year

New Year’s has long been my favorite holiday. There’s something so appealing about the promise of a new start; a clean slate. With so few obligations attached to New Year’s, it’s like a treat after the intensity of the holidays that immediately precede it. I happen to adore holidays like that – those that carry little to no weight of obligatory tradition.

For me New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day stand out as a marker for how we want to walk into the new year. If I am honest, I kind of have this feeling at the start of every month (if I am really honest, I feel a small version of this every day…). The idea that we can begin again. Fresh. Clean. Anew. I am so drawn to that concept. Maybe the appeal is being able to shed the burdens that have been rubbing callouses, or maybe it’s the promise of the possibility of what CAN be…

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