"And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” Neil Gaiman

 No, 2023 won’t be the best year yet.

Nor will it be the worst.

You see, a year is a mosaic of absolutely everything.

Joy, fear, heartache, loss, beauty, pain, love.

Failure, learning, friendship, misery, exhilaration.

Each day, each moment even, is a tiny shard of glass in this beautiful, confusing creation.

2023 will be another mosaic to add to your wall of art.

A wall that shows the life, you are continuously gifted.

A wall that shows you are human.

A wall of survival.

I wish you many broken pieces of glass this year, my friends.

Because this is living.

And before you march on in to another year of ‘everything’, pause to look back, at the work you have created thus far.

It is quite something.

You are quite something.

Now onwards we go, my friends.

Onwards we go.

Donna Ashworth

‘Life’

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 very icy miles. pm tm long run 5.1 miles. On my way to covering 2023 miles in 2023)