I opened my windows to let out the old year like my Irish Grandmother taught me. I tossed out glasses of water to rid our field of emotional stagnation from the past. Deep house cleaning prepared the stage for these rituals.
Now fresh candles, incense, and new flower arrangements replace the old. My “new husband” slumbers as his body heals from last months stroke. Each moment crackles in possibilities. H
How did you release 2021? What is your best welcome for 2022? Ki to Happiness gives preference to those things that have worked before, as Mirabai encourages in her poem from the 1500s entitled Preference:
Stuck with another day (or year), how should we pass it?
If anything works for you before — I’d give that preference.