A New Year's listicle

Some things to do in the coming year

Dear Global Jigsaw,

A short New Year’s post. In 2024 try to:

• Make friends with trees. They are wise and nourishing.

• Have meetings with yourself on daily walks. Be your own therapist. 

• Host a regular,mixed-age group, game night. Play is joyous.

• Keep a notebook at hand for found poems. They often pop up to chat in unexpected places 

• Buy warm socks and moisturizing cream. Cultivate tenderness, including to the soles of your feet

• Give others the gift of your vulnerability and receive theirs in turn. 

• Make a pot of tea with deliberation and observe the steam swirling up until it melts into the air.

• Cultivate your inner world- tell yourself your own story - think of life’s setbacks as plot. 

• Travel your neighbourhood like it were a foreign country. Open yourself to wonder and detail.

• Tell all those you love that you love them every opportunity you get. Tight hugs count as words.

• Trust your children. Forgive your parents. Talk up your spouse. Put yourself in everyone’s shoes.

• Find a really dark spot of the world and look up at the Milky Way. Bonus if it’s crispy cold.

• Stop fighting impermanence. Brevity is part of incandescence. 

• Enjoy the now, now. 

Happy 2024 from the Arias-Aiyars

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Hasta pronto,

Pallavi