A New Year of Possibilities

Happy new year, friends! I hope you enjoyed ringing in 2024 with some of your favorite people. Many people like to make resolutions to change themselves in some way as a new year begins, but I would like to challenge us to think bigger and to change the world around us with our love and kindness. Ideally this starts with loving and accepting yourself with all of your imperfections that make you uniquely and perfectly you. Once you can fully love yourself, you are prepared and able to love others without condition.

2024 could be a pivotal year for America and the world at large. Our very democracy and freedom is on the ballot this year. This week I read the following quote by Elliot Kirschner from the Steady blog here on Substack: “We are at a moment in history none of us could have predicted. A former president gleefully demolishes our democratic norms and corrodes our constitutional cohesion. Our capacity to contend with other challenges — like the climate crisis and our struggle for racial justice — is greatly diminished at a time when we need to redouble our efforts. These disquieting truths define the era in which we are living. They have dominated our discourse and amplified our anxieties. And yet, when historians look back decades from now, perhaps they will see that these malevolent forces prodded our nation to confront its weaknesses and build a more empathetic, democratic, and resilient future.”  I am hoping for that possibility in 2024 that we will hold on to our democracy and treat each other with love and empathy. Let’s be the change we want to see in the world. Welcome to Day One of a year and a life of new possibilities! Please take a moment and listen to this inspiring song my husband Tracy wrote:

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