The White Rabbit Bids Adieu to 2020!

These final weeks of 2020 I have had the almost daily honour of encounters with at least one, if not two, brilliantly white, snowshoe hares while trail walking in woods nearby my home.

To say it's been a delightful, calming way to end a year such as this one, is no understatement.

For, in too many ways to recall, the horrors of this year seemed to go on, well, forever.

Alice--"How long is Forever?"

White Rabbit--"Sometimes just one second."

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A second, White Rabbit?--give your ears a shake! Sometimes the agony of for-ev-er seems to last a whole entire year! The experience of something lasting forever, is, like so much of life, a purely subjective experience.

But since nothing ever really lasts forever, we get to bid this awful, beautiful, mixed-up, life and death- filled year, adieu.

Farewell 2020!

And, as though January 1st is something more than the change of a calendar page, something in me wants to wipe my own slate clean and begin again. I also want the year to hold the possibility of something better for us all.

So, I bow my head in a shaft of midnight moonlight, bend knee at the paw of the sure, white footed hare, and I tip my hat to the possibility of better tomorrows despite knowing that much of what we endured this year will not change with the change of the year.

But we can change ourselves and be better people, to each other and to this blessed world.

Please carry with you this moonlit message of lightness and ease, of survival and fortitude, of joy in the midst of heartbreak and hold it in your heart as though it's from a friend and means something.

Wishing you bright, white rabbits who don't hurry and full moons that seem to own the sky and hearts of happiness and health and courage and peace and goodness enough to share with others.

Happy New Year, 2021!

Despite being a realist, I am somehow filled with so many hopes for you!

Jill