Well, the new year has arrived. I’m not too sure if it feels any different from last year. The rain is coming down cleaning out the air and, hopefully clearing out a path for good things to come.
In some states, the new year is bringing an increase in the minimum wage. However, inflation is supposedly going to continue to rise. For those who are paranoid about being monitored. Here’s an interesting new law for New York. state. Specifically, this new law will require employers to provide written notice to employees if they are being electronically monitored in any way. Interesting. I don’t know about you, but I was suspect my employer to be monitoring in some way.
It’s great that we at least know which laws and regulations are coming into effect. It’s one thing we can know. For we have to acknowledge this year brings way too many unknowns. And, I’m going to admit that makes me a bit anxious. There are many new paths to be forged this year. Too many forks in the road ahead. But here we are. One thing I can control is my reaction and planning.
If you didn’t catch Anerican poet Amanda Gorman’s new years poem, I present it below and hope it inspires you. As she notes solace can arise from sorrow. And for me forward movement can rise from uncertainty.
“May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Withered, we come to weather,
Torn, we come to tend,
Battered, we come to better.
Tethered by this year of yearning,
We are learning
That though we weren’t ready for this,
We have been readied by it.
We steadily vow that no matter
How we are weighed down,
We must always pave a way forward.
This hope is our door, our portal.
Even if we never get back to normal,
Someday we can venture beyond it,
To leave the known and take the first steps.
So let us not return to what was normal,
But reach toward what is next.
*
What was cursed, we will cure.
What was plagued, we will prove pure.
Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;
Those moments we missed
Are now these moments we make,
The moments we meet,
And our hearts, once all together beaten,
Now all together beat.
*
Come, look up with kindness yet,
For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
But to take on tomorrow.
*
We heed this old spirit,
In a new day’s lyric,
In our hearts, we hear it:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
Be bold, sang Time this year,
Be bold, sang Time,
For when you honor yesterday,
Tomorrow ye will find.
Know what we’ve fought
Need not be forgot nor for none.
It defines us, binds us as one,
Come over, join this day just begun.
For wherever we come together,
We will forever overcome.”
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psychologistmimi 
Lulu: “Happy New Year!”
Charlee: “Looking forward to no apocalypses in the near future, but not counting on it …”
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😄 hehehe. Cheers!
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I hope each day moves us closer to a pandemic controlled, and the world being better.
Happy New Year – this is what we have to work with.
It’s been rainy and foggy in California where I live, and we relish each precious drop of water, but we have a ‘bright sunshiny day’ going, and it is cheering me up. Gotta get back to my writing – books don’t write themselves!
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May your hope come true. Have a wonderful day writing!
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Happy New Year and thanks for sharing the wonderful poem.
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Happy new year 🎉 cheers
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SMiLes Psychologistmimi
Thanks So Much For Sharing
Amanda Gorman’s New Year’s Poem
A Reminder LiGHT Comes From DarK iNDeeD
And Speaking of Apocalypse That Originally
IN Greek Means
Lifting the
Veils of
Ignorance
Yet Changed
Into Catastrophe
By More Modern
Dreams of Hopes
To End the World
For More Stuff After
Death Away From California Dreaming Now
My Uncle Bob and His Wife My Aunt Norma
The Richest Couple of Relatives i Have Living
Still on Shalimar Point on The Emerald Green
Gulf Coast Paradise Through Selling Vacuum
Cleaners Starting At Sears Then Yes Door to
Door Then Franchising it Like Kentucky Fried
Chicken And Colonel Sanders Did Except Yes
His Work
Really
S88KS…
Anyway Speaking
of that They Were
Just Fine on Christmas
Day And Then to my Great
Chagrin They Told me today
They Have Been Suffering From
Covid-19 After Getting all Tripled Vaxxed
Likely the Omicron Variant And the Rates
Have Been Really Low Here Ever Since
September So i Went to Look At the Covid
Counter In my County And Oh Lord A Tidal
Wave Spike Indeed on December 31st Just
Yesterday And Checking Out Cities in the United
States And Various Counties And Even Canada And
Toronto Too The After Christmas Blues of Covid-19
Spreading Uniformly Tidal Wave Highest All Around
This North America Area Indeed Yet Sadly As it May
Sound Nature Will Be So Predictable And Humans too
In Karma of Waves Going Out and Coming In Again
Yet It’s Another
Year Yet
It’s Another
Year Best to
Lift the Blinds of
Ignorance in Orignal
Definition Greek of Apocalypse
So All of Nature Including Us Get
to BREaTHE A Little Better For This #Play2022
True Best if We All Play Fair With Other And
Protect
Each Other True
TO ACTUaLLY
LiVE NoW JusT NoW…
A Belief In Death More Than
Has Killed Many Folks So Sadly Dead…
Yet It’s True There Are Some ‘Sacred Cows’
Folks Are Sadly too Afraid to Touch to Save Lives…
And Even Life-Long Careers in Jobs For Conspiracies oF Lies
Sad When What is Untouchable Needs to Be Touched Most to Survive.
Apocalypse
So Ironically
Lost Indeed It Still Seems…
Other than that “Road
Runner” Doesn’t Give
Up Running We
Must
Count
On New
Year ‘Coyote’ For That..:)
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