Call it a beginning
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Well, okay, last day of the year.
I went into it with some irritation. So many dangling loose ends, so many things not completed that I feel should have been. Nothing like a deadline to remind you of how late you are.
But then I reflected on a passage I read from the book 365 Tao, that I bought shortly after I was on my own again. It has a short meditative reading for each day of the year, and I've been following along, well, pretty religiously.
The thing is, there is a recurrent theme in Taoism, of cycles within cycles, and that every ending contains the seeds of a new beginning. Each of my dangling threads is actually the beginning of a path that I'm going to need to take in the New Year. Rather than being shamefully incomplete tasks, they become simply the base of my to-do list for next time.
It is only I who feel a need to draw a nice neat line between years, here. That line doesn't need to exist; I can allow one year to flow into the next. The boundary is artificial, the living is not.
Let's begin! :-)
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