May you cross boldly
the threshold of your new year,
cup your hands around new days
and find something to savor,
if only a cool sip of water or
the shimmer of a sunbeam
through a window.

May you remember with your attention
how everything is connected,
your kinship with land and animals and tress
and people near and far.

May you find time to be slow and unhurried,
read more long books,
share more long meals,
take more long walks,
making time to notice, contemplate, discern.

May you fiercely, passionately, creatively
embrace every moment of aging this year brings,
no energy wasted on filtering what is real,
so that you show up as you are,
taking up space in a way that
invites others to do the same.

May this be a year of being more deeply yourself,
tending relationships that ripple out their blessings
of mutuality, reciprocity, and care –
cultivating, nurturing, sharing
gifts needed by our world.