New Year Thoughts for 2024

New Year Thoughts

I am not one for New Year's Resolutions, bucket lists or items to be ticked off. These give us a sense of obligation or expectation that we may not be able to achieve, and may lead to disappointment and even a sense of failure!. Each day brings its own experiences to be appreciated for what they are, not for what we planned them to be or wish that they were.

Instead, this New Year we can allow ourselves to be enchanted every day by nature's beauty in the same way as a child does - open-eyed, seeing novelty in simple things. Noticing the sky, trees and plants, insects and birds and animals, colours and shapes, as new.

Wishing all a very Happy New Year, every new day.