If the world is the text, what do you know? What might you study?
How do you experience other people?
What is at your edge? What is at your core? Now?
What would you like to be able to say on January first that you cannot say now? (That is at least somewhat in your control?)
Would you like to be more art oriented or more goal oriented?
To what might you tend? With joy, levity, and care?
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It goes without saying that to be among the callous, the cynical, the unbelievers, is to be among the winners, for those who have lost are never hardened to loss; they feel it deeply, always, into eternity. No one who has lost dares to doubt, really doubt, human goodness; for the one who has lost, the last breath is a sigh, “Oh God.” Always."
—Jamacia Kincaid