newness

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Of the holidays in midwinter, I think celebrating the New Year is my favorite. Many years I love to wear something beautiful, stay up too late dancing and staring into the future, drinking the good champagne, but not every year. And not this year, this year I made brownies and argued with my five year old about the tragedy of me putting whipped cream on them and therefore ruining everything good about them.

This year I sat in a tepid hot tub looking at desert stars which made me feel right sized. This year I drank one glass of champagne at 10:30 pm.

I lay in bed as the new year arrived listening to the sounds of fireworks exploding not being able to see their sparkle.

The real reason though that I love a new year is the look back and look forward that locates me. While I don’t make my own lists usually I enjoy others time capsules, songs, events, markers of what happened. And then there is the opportunity to begin again and that might actually be my favorite part, I look so forward to …