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January 01, 2006
The best of the year
I've only just come to realise that a New Year can be a good thing: a question, an invitation, not a threat. It’s difficult not to feel like fresh start is somehow being made.
Today I took a brisk walk round my corner of London. It was quiet, no one much about, grey and damp as London is in winter, the occassional sunbeam lighting red brick goldly. It’s a wonderful thing, to walk, feet ringing out a rhythm that soon sets the mind free. I indulged in a fantasy where I somehow, miraculously, no longer have to Work and instead live by knitting alone, and turn the back garden over to fruit and veg. Cashmere and carrots. There was a child too. In fantasy, I have boundless energy.
I hope have you get a moment today to corral your hopes for 2006. I got home from my walk with a sniffly nose and cold toes, rejuvinated and excited about the year ahead.
I wish you all the very best that life can offer in 2006. May you ask the questions, and may the answers come, day by day.
Posted by Anna at January 1, 2006 03:51 PM
Comments
What a wonderful post! Gave me goose-bumps! Thanks for infusing a bit of optimism into my morning! Happy New Year
Posted by: christine at January 1, 2006 04:27 PM
Beautiful thoughts for the new year.
Posted by: knitannie at January 1, 2006 04:35 PM
Which for wonderful words! Thanks very much and I wish you also a healthy and beautiful new year 2006. That all your dreams into fulfilment go. Happy new Year, Maartje
Posted by: Maartje at January 1, 2006 04:36 PM
Thanks for sharing your walk - sounds lovely, and is giving me something to think about. Happy New Year. :)
Posted by: Chris at January 1, 2006 04:45 PM
what a great idea to take a new year's walk to clear your mind, reflect on 2005 and plan for 2006. have a wonderful new year!
Posted by: D R E W at January 1, 2006 05:23 PM
Happy New Year Anna. Wishing you all the best for 2006.
Posted by: Mary at January 1, 2006 06:01 PM
what a wonderful sentiment. i could feel the chilly dampness as i read your new year's walk. may this year bring you boundless joy and peace!
Posted by: jennifer at January 1, 2006 08:05 PM
Happy New Year Anna!
I don't know which I like more, your writing style or your knitting. ;) I wish you a blissful 2006!
Posted by: Liz at January 1, 2006 09:28 PM
Happy 2009, Anna! *HUGS*
Posted by: Jackie at January 1, 2006 10:28 PM
Happy New Year, hope you've said good riddance to the sniffles. I'm having visions of carrots and cashmere right this minute....
Posted by: Tracy at January 1, 2006 10:41 PM
what wonderful thoughts. i am taking some of your advice right now and planning on looking at 2006 with a great deal more positivity. in fact i might even go for a walk later on this evening.
thank you for your wonderful wonderful post. it is exactly what i needed today. xx
Posted by: jacqueline at January 2, 2006 01:19 AM
After a year marked by a few rather unusual difficulties, I, too, have found that I'm looking on the new year for the very first time with a positive outlook, instead of just another year gone by in a blink.
Only a couple hours after ringing in the new year, I woke up with a start (nephew crying in the next room, actually) and laid awake spinning things around in my head for hours. Although tired, it seemed right to be awake in the quiet of the night, in a house full of sleeping family. Eventually I just got up, turned on a light and pored over new knitting books, weaving thoughts of new knitting with the new year ahead.
This wide-awake dreaming is a good thing, I think...but now I must sleep.
Happy New Year and Happy New Knitting to you. Thank you for sharing all your lovely patterns with us this past year. Can't wait to see this year's knitting.
Posted by: Siri at January 2, 2006 04:41 AM
Happy New Year to you too!
Posted by: Scout at January 2, 2006 02:15 PM
What a wonderful outlook and wish for the new year. Thanks, Anna!
Posted by: caroline at January 6, 2006 03:37 AM