A clean slate. A fresh start. Anything can happen and often does in a new year. Everything can be new if you want it to be. The air is scented with possibilities. Keep as much as you want but allow as many changes in as can add freshness and happiness. Remember to give thanks for all you have and will receive.
A happy and insightful new year to all.

Christmas is definitely the time of year that let's you know how normal you are. Everyone is supposed to be with their loving family receiving expensive gifts.
Don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't at times fight with family members and who even has the money or the time to buy these expected gifts. Mostly in reality people are on their own whether by choice or circumstance and feel depressed being locked out of all this joy and supposed happiness.
But no one is ever really alone. We are all linked to each other and the all.
Hullo from the other side.

Are gifts rapidly becoming increasingly meaningless?
Small thoughts as gifts mean the recipient is in your heart. The well wish does not increase with more money spent on the gift. In fact the more you feel you have to spend means how little you know about that person. Spending more money to compensate for some deficiency on your part ends up meaning money is everything.
Happiness and love mean more and they don't have anything to do with money.

We're all looking for meaning in our lives. Often that meaning can come from the smallest action and you won't even know it's happened.
Standing in a check out line at a supermarket, as I had a lot of shopping I allowed a young Arabic man to go first. He only had two packets of noodle soup to last him for the whole week. Such a small gesture to him became a great kindness and I knew this had changed the way he viewed Western people. One small act had stopped one man at least becoming radicalised.
Practice random acts of kindness as your purpose in life.

Very few people stand out or indeed want to. How much easier is it if we all just lead a life in the shadows and go unnoticed?
So how refreshing is it to see a push bike going past carrying a brightly clad person in five inch heels with ribbons as hair. Brief shorts reveal muscular legs and a beard appears below the ribbons. Someone definitely not afraid of standing out. Happy to be you.