New year! New plans? Really?

My collage / vision board for 2024

New Year's Day 2024

365 days coming 
so many starts 

with so many intentions

with so much wanting

planning

languishing 

avoiding

restarting and

petering out. . . 

so let's just stop

right here right now  
and focus

F-O-C-U-S 
on what we do -- actually do 
each day every day all the time
we breathe in and out
live as best we can 
in each moment we have
because
one day, we will run out of moments and plan no more
so
while we have these moments
let us live each one to the fullest 
plans be damned
goals unlisted

Focus 

on what we do -- actually do 
and
be satisfied in that 

It's the NEW YEAR 

and I am choosing 

to focus 

on the moments,

one after the next,

and I will do what I do

There will be writing

and more writing 

and teaching

and other things, too,

and this will be my year

the NEW YEAR

not unlike the old year

Moment by moment 

breathing in 

and

breathing out

I will live these coming days

May there be peace and love and satisfaction in your days in 2024

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Housekeeping from the old year: In December, I was a guest on a podcast about writing and I had a micro story published. You can listen to my interview here and read my story here.

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Land acknowledgement: I respectfully recognize that I live on the original lands of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.