Rethinking and reintroducing myself to 2024
Alright, basically, coming into 2024, my word of the year, okay, is SPACE. This word feels right to me, evoking how I want to feel and move through the year.
I want to cultivate a luxurious feeling of expansiveness and room in my life, instead of wedging all my tasks and doings in around each other and my work like some sort of bloody awful tetris.
As I said as well earlier, I’m working on writing a novel now, so I need to streamline my life for that, too.
🌈I'm brainstorming some lovely shop ideas for the coming year, it's all so exciting, I can't wait to share them with you all! The general categories are: 🧙♀️ witchy/paper and books/wall art/beeswax (because as a beekeeper I have a whackload of it). 🐝📖 reminder: my shop, Fake Breakdown Crafts, is open for business.
I want to be wriggling my toes in the delight of the lack of clutter in my mind and life.
Anyway, so I chose a word last year as well: it was SPARKLE. Was 2023 sparkly for me? I guess? It definitely was a year where I moved through a lot of blockages and old patterns, so if that’s not, well, utterly sparkly, then I don’t know what is.
With the idea of SPACE in mind, my current feelings about this substack publication look like this:
Very cluttered, not very ‘space’ and airy and light feeling at all.
So, I was having all these complicated feelings and very oddly opened substack over the Christmas holidays there, which I hadn’t been planning on doing, and I saw a post by Luisa Skinner that just made everything coalesce for me really, in the realisation that I absolutely do not have to trundle on feeling weird and squiggly about something if I don’t want to:
I’m not going to archive this publication or anything, I’m just going to be approaching it in a different way, mentally.
Honestly, not much is going to change for you, dear reader, at all: it’ll just be me who’ll be different.
I hope. We’ll see.
Have you ever chosen words for the year?
Would you think about doing it now that I’ve mentioned it? If so what word would you pick?
Until next week, my beautiful gremlins,
Jessica
I think it's 'threshold' for me. I've just had a fiftieth birthday, and I'm feeling already this is second life. I had better make it count. Thresholds to thin or sacred spaces, and to self and others. See what you think, wrote this today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theseainme/p/thresholds?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46rss
I haven’t picked a word for a year before and I’m not necessarily doing it now _but_ I am very focused on the idea of REST at the moment. I’m trying to focus on what energy and drive I have and decide if I need a rest. If I do, I will rest with no guilt or anxiety over what I’m _not_ doing, whatever that may be. If I don’t need to rest, I will make a conscious effort to do things that are productive/therapeutic/enjoyable.