Easing into 2014

2014 is HERE! I’m healthy, happy, and grateful to be ALIVE to see the sun come out yet again. These things such as the sun coming out, waking up in a safe environment are not things to take for granted. They are truly blessings.

Having spent much of the past couple of weeks feeling ill, I decided that I just did not want to succumb to my superstition regarding the cleanliness of my house, who I am with, and what I am doing at that moment when the new year arrives. My house was reasonably tidy but not spotless, as I generally aspire to – worrying that a dirty house at the beginning of the year will lead to a dirty house for the year in its entirety. I spent the evening with YaYa and close friends, then went to bed before the strike of midnight. But I have no intention to sleep the year away.

When morning came, I sat back in observance and watched the day unfold. I felt no need to change or control it — as I have done year after year. I just let it be.

The day began soft and quiet at first. No birds’ song, no people out walking, no dogs barking, and no traffic. It was unusually quiet. I took it as a sign of much late night activity — people milking 2013 for all they could get of it – down to the very last second. As for me, I was happy to sleep the last of it away and awake to the quiet, gentle calmness of a new day, and new year. I really like this way of starting the year off without me having obsessed over trying to control the transition. It’s a nice reminder for me to relax and just let some things be as they are. Maybe? Just a little bit more.