Happy New Year
Music Moment- Happy WINSday and New Year.
A view of the fireworks on Las Vegas Blvd. 2025
A bid and farewell to the year. The end of the year has always been marketed as a time for review, contemplation about the previous year and the year to come. As you celebrated in your own way, the ringing in of the new year, and a bid farewell to 2024, have you spent any time rummaging through the memories of 2024, and setting your sights on what you want to bring in to 2025?
I was thinking about the traditional New Years song Auld Lang Syne- (translated to Old Long Since in the original language Scottish)
The lyrics…”should old acquaintance be forgot? Should they be forgot and not brought to mind?
As you look back on 2024, are there people who will not be sharing your journey in 2025? Some by your choice, and others I’m sure not a choice or certainly not your choice. Those are the harder ones, yes? For those that are not by your choice I hope that you can find a peace and a gratitude for their time in your life. I believe that regardless of how long someone is in our life, be it a parent, a child, a friend or spouse, once that relationship has run it’s course, if we can get to a point of gratitude for the relationship, then we have more peace. Regardless of how a relationship ends, be it death or a fight, divorce, or it simply fades away, there is a cycle of grief that we must go through. This can also be true when we are in our own process of rebuilding our own life, making big changes. Perhaps letting go of some limiting beliefs, some habits from your past. Letting go of the “old you”, there is definitely a period of grief to go through. So, if you are not all “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy, perhaps you are in a period of mourning or grief. The old life, the old self.
Not everything or everyone needs to go with you into 2025. This is particularly important to keep in mind when we think about what we want to bring into our life in 2025. Are there relationships that you have now that are not supportive of your future goals? Maybe it’s time to let them go.
“We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet, for the sake of Auld Land Syne”
Yes, at the end of the day, at the end of the year, I hope we will all be drinking a cup of kindness, for what is in our cup is what flows out when it becomes too full. So, for 2025 and beyond, I wish you cups of kindness! And as Roger Clyne of Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers wrote in in his Refreshments days a song called Mekong: “If your bottle’s empty, help yourself to mine.”
We are pouring kindness, love, compassion over here all year long!
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