Some things to do in the New Year:
Start a
journal and write in it every day, or perhaps once a week, but regularly. Record the weather. Pen your thoughts. Write a story from your
past. Remove an emotional ache from your
system.
Vow to
laugh out loud at least once each day, all year long. You’ll feel better. You’ll help others feel better.
Take
time to see the whiteness of fresh fallen snow that sparkles and glimmers and
covers the grime and dirt of an earlier day.
Watch
the sun set when the temperature is below freezing and the sky is steel blue
and turns black as the sun sinks away and the thermometer plummets.
Listen
for the silence of winter, when snow buries the land and the cold tightens its
grip. There is great beauty in silence,
something that is in short supply these days.
Stand in
a snowstorm and watch snowflakes accumulate on your sleeve. Each snowflake is different, each one
special—a reminder of nature’s creative magnificence.
Sit by a
fireplace or a wood stove doing nothing except listening to the occasional pop
of the fire and smelling the hint of wood smoke that sneaks into the room.
Remember
that doing nothing is sometimes the most important thing you can do.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: Happy New Year!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
January 14, 6:30 p.m. Whole Foods,
3313 University Ave., Madison.
Excerpt from TV show, “A Farm Story,” and discussion.
January 17, 7:00 p.m. Fitchburg Library, Garden Wisdom
January 19, 3:00 p.m. (Writing Workshop) Northern Lakes
Center for the Arts, Amery, WI
January 19, 7:30 p.m. Northern Lakes Center for the
Arts. Presentation and Discussion: The
Ames County Novel Series.
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Patterson Memorial Library
500 Division St. PO Box 305
Wild Rose, WI 54984
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