Now let us welcome the New Year,
Full of things that have never been.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Making gnocchi was a great thing to do on the last day of the year. Not only was our last meal of 2009 delicious, there was something incredibly calming about the creation process. Making the gnocchi dough from cooked potato, flour and eggs is a messy process. Initially all the ingredients are separate. Slowly you work to combine them so that eventually you have a smooth pasta dough ready to be rolled out into individual gnocchi – the separate ingredients become one.
In many ways this has typified my past year, even the past decade, as I tried to blend everything together to function as smoothly as possible. There have been successes and failures – all of them learning opportunities. There has been laughter and sadness. There have been dreamed unrealised, new dreams formed, lots of reviewing and reflection. I have developed new skills and put to rest ones that I don’t need at the moment. Growth has happened. There are still many lessons to learn, lots of living to do and fun to be had.
I enter 2010 with an open mind. There is a heaviness in my being, a kind of dread, because of some of the challenges that I know lie ahead. At the same time there is a sense of excitement about the unknown, the newness of every day and every year. There is an incredible amount of extraordinary in the ordinary. Living an “ordinary life” is not half bad. The best thing about my life is I share it with people I love and who love me. Together we are a mighty force.
Sara Ban Breathnach suggests we tear up our list of resolutions because we have all we need and we have all we could possibly want. A new friend said something similar to me recently. She said: “Marica, you are enough. You have all you need.” I found this concept very thought provoking. Now I need to work out how this translates into the life I dream of living.
Good-bye 2009. Thank you for all that has been. A new day is about to dawn.
Manifesto
01. Every day is a fresh new day.
02. Every day is an opportunity for a new beginning.
50. Every day has an ending.
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