2025 Word For the Year

January 1, 2025January 23, 2025 ~ GrayMareWrites ~ Leave a comment

I pick a word for the coming year as encouragement, inspiration, and an arrow pointing the way into the next twelve months. The last few weeks I’ve been wearing out my Dictionary app, looking at words like fulfill and achieve. But I finally decided on my very favorite word:

P O S S I B I L I T I E S

I love the word Possibilities because it’s such a liberating word – it opens our minds, our hearts, our imaginations, and our determination.

It ushers in the secret sauce of life – HOPE.

It reminds us that we have unlimited choices.

Possibilities are the steps right before commitment –

the steps that boost us to YES!

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Thoughts About A New Year

January 1, 2022January 17, 2022 ~ GrayMareWrites ~ Leave a comment

Honestly, after the last two crap fest years, I really don’t want to say anything to jinx 2022.

Two years ago, the prospect of 2020 and its clear vision of normalcy with a little travel thrown in, began with a late December 2019 trip to Texas, taking a train from San Antonio to Houston for Christmas at NASA. March 4, 2020, found us on a day trip to San Diego on Amtrak, wondering how worried we should be about a virus we’d heard about lately. Nine days later, we were locked down. The Husband didn’t work for months, while I was lucky enough to work from home. In hindsight, the word for 2020 would be Uncertainty.

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