{"id":4198,"date":"2026-01-07T19:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:07:44","slug":"not-quite-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/not-quite-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello, 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, according to the Gregorian calendar anyway.
I much prefer seeing Spring Equinox as the herald of a new year.
It just doesn\u2019t feel right for a new year to start smack dab in the middle of Winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often, I feel like I have to rush the preparation to enter a new year within the two weeks before December ends. But that doesn\u2019t feel like a lot of time to not only reflect on the previous year, but to also plant seeds and percolate on what I want the new year to be for me.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Last year, my mantra was this quote by Alfie Woodard:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I don’t care about other people in their small lives and small minds. I am just here to groove and be one with the celestial beat<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It worked really well for me in 2025, and I\u2019m going to continue feeding the fire of my soul with that sentiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Building on that, I feel like 2026 for me will be a year where I continue cutting down on the \u201cnoise\u201d I expose myself to on a regular daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder.<\/em>
In noise, rather than silence\u2026how do we encourage reflection? Oh my, this is a noisy world.<\/em>
I get up every morning at least by 5AM. I have a couple hours of quiet time, reflect about what is important.<\/em> What can we do, to encourage people to have more quiet in their lives, more silence?<\/em>
Real revelation comes through silence<\/em>.\u201d -Fred Rogers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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I want to continue creating and nurturing the space for ideas, wonder, revelations, chance, and serendipity.
I want space for my heart and spirit to feel alive and free.
And sometimes, silence (and maybe perhaps some solitude) is what is necessary to create that space.<\/p>\n\n\n

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