Here we are. 2024. Hurtling through space on a big blue ball at 90 miles per second. Around the sun we go, woo hoo! Are you ready for an another round? My answer changes daily, my thoughts covering such ground as:
Christ, I’m still walloped from last year, stop the world I want to get off.
I’m only just beginning kiddo, look out hurtling world.
Oh no, I’m one year closer to death and there still so much unfinished!
I’ve achieved SO much this past year; time to build on it
I’ve achieved so LITTLE this past year, what’s the point?
Yeah baby, bring it on, let’s go!
Where the hell do I start?
Slow and steady mate, slow and steady
I’m just happy on my couch with a cup of chai and my graphic novel I got for Christmas*
*Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet series
Mostly I’m giving myself a little break, a pocket of down time, to put all the hopes and fears and plans and possibilities onto the back burner so my marvellous unconscious mind can go to work on it. From the cauldron a new song bubbled up for the new year.
A song for you
This week’s song n video is a kind of a prayer for you and I. After the song I do a little delving into the themes, especially the conundrum of reaching for the future whilst finding some peace with what is happening now. Enjoy, and consider sharing on your social media to spread the prayer around.
Bonus - Song Lyrics & Chords!
Another year finished
Let’s go round the sun once more
May you live and love and discover and do
what you came here for
May you see clearly
May you drink from the well
May you find treasure
in the places you dig and delve
Chorus
And may every sunrise
that lights up the dawn
spread light through your mind
and fill you to your core
Happy New Year
May you hold conversations
between head gut and heart
May you begin with the end in mind
May you finish what you start
May you find sanctuary
When the world get too loud
May you find an island of grass
and look up at the magic of clouds
Repeat Chorus
May you be cloaked
in layers of trust
May you choose pathways
Creative and just
May you find your frontier
And wherever you roam
May a path of moonlight
Clearly light the way home
Repeat Chorus
Chords - Versus
Dm A7 x2
Dm C
F C
Chords - Chorus
Gm Dm x 2
Dm A7
Bb C7
Bb C F