I think my 2018 Word of the Year: Hermitage, was right on the money. I spent as much time as I could last year holed up in the woods in my new cabin. And it seems that my desire to be a hermit applied to my online presence as well as to my daily life. Last year saw the lowest number of posts on this blog, by far, in any year since it began.
Which feels "not like me".
Indeed, I have been feeling kind of funny lately in general. And I don't mean funny-haha, I mean funny-strange.
Not in a terrible way. My mood is decent most of the time. I think I just have a lot on my mind. I am processing many things and trying to figure them out. I feel uncertain of my path.
It's easiest for me to hide out when I'm feeling that way. And so, I am particularly grateful this year for this tradition of setting a word as a theme and inspiration for 2019. Wanting to maintain this 6-year streak is pulling me out of hiding for a few minutes and giving me an opportunity to think about and share where I'm at and how I'm feeling.
For 2019, I have selected the word: Attune.
I was all set to pick something more dramatic, like transformation or metamorphosis. But then I looked at the definitions for those words and they spoke of changing one thing completely or dramatically into something else. And that is not what I want this year to be about.
Things are shifting, for sure, and I am changing, but not radically. Carefully, gently, deliberately, with hope and compassion.
And just look at the definition for attune:
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| Courtesy of the Google Dictionary. To see this larger and live-r, visit https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=Dictionary#dobs=attune |
Dictionary definitions turn me on at the best of times, but I can feel this one put its arms around me and look deep into my eyes, if you know what I mean.
Welcome, 2019. Let's attune to one another.
