Old year/new year things
Hi again, after a brief hibernation! I hope your holidays have been full of good things, or at the very least sprinkled with many of them.
N and I went back to our home town, where both of our parents and some of our siblings still live, and enjoyed a week full of family and friends. We’re home again now, though, and after all the busyness and time away from routine, and as the year comes to a close and the wings of a new one flutter only meters away, I find myself restless. I’m hungry but not. Tired but not. Lonely but peopled out. I’m homesick for something I can’t quite name.
Do any of you feel this way?
Maybe a blessing is in order for all of us, as we sit in this strange post/present holiday, pre-new-year spot…
May your day today, and the days that follow it, be in some small way like a seed sending up a fresh, green sprout. May the places in you that ache and feel small or dark or lonely or cold get touched by fullness somehow—the kind that makes you feel warm and loved and like maybe it’s gonna be okay. May the questions you carry that do and don’t have answers, and the fears you have that can and can’t ever be comforted, and all the ways you wish that you or your life could be different—may you discover a layer of living that happens right alongside these things, where there is hope, and a gentle sweetness, and beauty, and wonder.
May your year ahead, and even the days of this week, be marked by a new kind of rest, and whatever it’ll take for you to find yourself falling into it.
Bless you.
December 31st, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Bless you too!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Kristin, Thank you for this profound and gorgeous blessing. It’s been my most nourishing welcome to 2007 yet.
January 8th, 2007 at 11:23 am
“Homesick for something I can’t quite name.” I love the way you express that, Kristin. I have felt inner conflict for as long as I can remember - since childhood. The good news is that I have found friends, places, and situations that feel a lot more like home of late, the home where my heart rests and my soul thrives. I am feeling more at home within my own skin of late than I ever have before. But still… there is a nagging, a yearning, a sense of “I know this isn’t it.” What a beautiful blessing. What a thoughtful and wonder-filled way to use your words to encourage us to not lose hope, to not give up, give over, or give in. And what moments we can live when we allow those parallel universes of wonder and doubt and joy and yearning and questions and safety and blessing and peace live side-by-side. What multi-layered lives we lead when we allow ourselves to live the questions and the answers, the tears and the laughter, the satisfaction and the yearning. Thanks for the reminder that we can have all of that and live it fully. Peace to you, Gail
January 14th, 2007 at 6:19 am
[…] Okay, on with my little presents to pass along to you. I have been on blog reading sabbatical, but everything here and here is too lovely for words. Per usual. I want to be Keri or Sage when I grow up. While we’re speaking of Sage, you can vote for her here. We don’t want her to be a poet who didn’t even know it. More information here. Having spent so much time in coffeeshops this last week, this link made me smile. Art is everywhere. I love the outrageous extravagance of this. I could eat one of these all by myself. When I die, remember me this way if a bench isn’t available here. Hopefully, I’ll be doing lots of things like this before that happens. I love the Zen jewels here made by my new blogcrush Denise. I love the idea of wearing something as a way of inviting my soul to expand and grow. Delightful images here. Also, I confess, in addition to Rose Cousins, this soundtrack is providing ample zine inspiration. Thanks, Madeleine, for making me a convert. I’ve been drinking this instead of this lately. My mother would be so proud. And last but not least, this dear friend posted a blessing for your soul that I am taking into my own fully for 2007. […]
January 14th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
oh i love this, thank you. bless you also kristen noelle!
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