📿 Incantations for the New Year

Blessings, wishes, spells, and aspirations as we turn the corner together. May it be so.

May you feel at home in your body.

May the simple act of locating your body in space offer you a sense of ease.

May you find yourself in loving communication with former versions of yourself.

May you recall a memory from your childhood with a new understanding that makes you feel softer towards the others involved.

May you know rest — without illness or guilt.

May you confront difficult situations with the same conviction and and amnesty as a child who’s learning to walk.

May you know the satisfaction of caring for living beings who can never repay your kindness.

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May subtle moments of beauty find you present and ready to receive.

May your social defenses be regularly disarmed by spontaneous acts of kindness.

May you find yourself making the most generous possible assumptions about yourself and others.

May you act on your most generous impulses before you have a chance to second guess yourself.

May you hold your desires as loosely as a living thing between your palms.

May you find the liberation that comes from (finally) burying the hatchet.

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May you find yourself in loving communication with future versions of yourself.

May the ache of your grief stretch your capacity to feel the bottomless nature of love.

May you open your palms and release expectations when you’re suspended in uncertainty.

May you know the fleeting miracle of all that’s in front of you, and may you honor it with your attention.

May you feel the intricate thread of mutual belonging that tethers you to every one of us, and that tethers all of us to you.

May you receive everything you need this year — in the most useful doses — with plenty of sweetness around the edges.

May it be so.

Thank you, thank you, for sharing a bit of your finite time with us here at The Laundry in 2024, friend. It’s a rare gift and we’re thankful you’re here.

And now, to serenade us into 2025, my forever anthem of hope for the newest year to come:

🎧 THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR — THE ZOMBIES