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 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.
I think it feels like the sea of words releasing. It was 'into my sea' at the beginning which was a twist on intimacy. It's a mix of all this, but hopefully positive.
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.
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 meant to say as well....
Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
I think it feels like the sea of words releasing. It was 'into my sea' at the beginning which was a twist on intimacy. It's a mix of all this, but hopefully positive.
I love the liminal spaces - twilight, dusk, the moments before dawn. I loved your poem!
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.
Yes! Idleness! Cultivate it!
It absolutely is!