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[elainegrey]

Christine received more sad news on New Years Day, with the death of her father's brother on late on New Years Eve. Again, not a sudden death, but one expected and in the fullness of time.

Nonetheless, I cannot imagine the sense of loss.

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I spent some time looking at the wishes i sketched out several days ago and thought about the words that jumped out at me: thrive, connect, serenity, fit, simplify, finish, create. I find myself thinking of a tree, thriving. The branches and roots connect the tree to others. As part of thriving, the tree is fit and sound. And then, through time the cyclical process of the actions of simplifying, creating, finishing create the sum of serenity. Hmm: serenitree?

I can have that neologism as a theme for the new year, i suppose.

Waverly Fitzgerald, author of the New Year’s Dreams e-workbook i'm using, encourages becoming specific with the wishes: how will it be clear that i've gotten my wish?

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Time passes. Friday roadtrip. Saturday working from 6am -3pm (very light weight work, but distracting)

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Comments

[zlabya]

I love your meditation on the "wish" words you chose and on trees. "Serenitree" is a concept I'll keep in my mind for myself too, I think.

[elainegrey]

There is a wonderful book on trees as (fuzzy memory) spiritual teachers? I read it decades ago (yikes). I think i could track it down if you're curious.

[zlabya]

That sounds cool, but I have a ton of books just sitting at home for me to read, and just can't stick with a spiritually-themed book at the moment, though I just finished a wonderful book about psychotherapy that was helpful and dealt a lot with the author/psychotherapist helping his clients facea and deal with mortality and grieving. (Creatures of a Day by Irvin D. Yalom, if you're interested. It's coming out next month, but I got an advance reader copy at work--I'm buying at least one copy for each branch in the county library system).