Happy New Year!
Remember the joyful naivete with which we greeted 2020? For me, fresh from a breakup, it was going to be the BEST YEAR EVER! It started with a sunrise run in the Cairngorms. I made a list of my goals on my whiteboard (get one!) and all the adventures I was committing to having. Then Covid-19, and lockdown happened. I don’t believe there is a single person who hasn’t been impacted by the new world. I’m one of those who’s full time job vanished during the pandemic. And a lot of those goals on my board seemed impossible. So I launched Merry May, with a strategy for finding joy in simple things – stars, kingfishers, sunshine. In classic 2020 fashion, our lives continued to present challenges. But that list, pinned to my door, gave me a system for finding moments of levity. The plan failed. But it wasn’t a failure. This week, I learned that September 1 st has a reputation as a sort of second rate January 1 st . The first calendar day of Autumn, kids back at school. Season