Issue 45 | December 21st, 2022 
8&21
Welcome to your three-minute pause. 
This is your practice space.

 
From New Year Resolutions to New Year Anticipations 
 
I'm big on goals—so I love setting New Year’s Resolutions.
 
But this year, I’m trying something new. Instead of drafting ambitious, goal-focused resolutions—listing the things I want to do or get  
this year—I’m setting anticipations. 
No matter what goals I set this year, there will be coffee to enjoy. Sunrises to see. Toddlers bursting into my office to steal my Post-its (as pictured…).
Whether there are big goals accomplished or not, I can anticipate so much potential from 2023—simply because it's another year. 
 
The coffee, the sunrises, the family moments—the year is full of their potential no matter what I do with goals and resolutions. 
 
So whether you’re goal setting or recharging this Holiday, I wish you a moment to reflect on all the potential good waiting for you in 2023. 
 
Dr. Sarah Glova, Co-Editor of 8&21 and Family Post-it Supplier

 
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

- Ellen Goodman, journalist


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More light, more potential 
 
Today is the Winter Solstice—the point in our calendar with the shortest day and longest night. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Earth is tilted away from the Sun in such a way that the arc of the Sun is much lower to the horizon as compared to the summer.  
From now on, our days will be getting longer as we shift into the new calendar year full of potential and more sunlight! 
Here's to 2023 and all the potential, growth, changes, and new adventures.
 
- Dr. Sarah Egan Warren, Co-Editor of 8&21 and Solstice Celebrator

 
The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.

- Melody Beattie, author 
 
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A mysterious New Year
Hail, New-born Year!
Cradled in morning clouds
Golden and white. I cannot see
Thy face--  ’tis wrapp’d in mystery;
But Spring for thee is painting flowers,
And Summer decks her woven bowers;
Rich Autumn’s sheaves will soon be reap’d,
With store of fruits in sunbeams steep’d,
And one by one with gentle hand 
            folds back thy sunlit shrouds.
 
- Excerpt from the poem, “New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day” 
   by English poet and feminist Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925).

 
You’re alive. That means you have 
infinite potential. 
You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. 

- Neil Gaiman, author 

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We already are
“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. 
 
While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
 
 
- From The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

- Hal Borland, author
 
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What are your New Year Anticipations?

 
Great job!
Way to take a pause and give 3 minutes to your practice of pursuing awesome 
by exploring this issue's theme. You rock!
 

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