Happy New Year and Month

Happy New Year! Can you believe it's now been 25 years since we survived Y2K?

The above monthly marker picture is made in a new way for a new year with KaleidaCam and Snapseed photo editing apps.

It's from a picture I took of an American Coot (a chicken-like bird that acts like a duck) in Lake Tahoe on New Year's Eve just a couple days ago.

The word of the year that I've picked for myself is: THRIVE

The world may be seeming like it is bending all around us in new and unexpected ways (like in the edited photo up above), but the theme or goal for the year is to thrive in spite of, because of, assisted by or all of the above that transpires this year. It seems like it could be a hinge of history sort of year, but maybe it will be somewhat less dramatic. Thriving in chaos vs. thriving in relative calm are of course two very different things, but the overall goal for the year is to thrive no matter what.

I'll do summing up last year and looking forward to this year posts sometime in the next week. But for now, I'm just enjoying putting up my new calendars, starting off writing in my new daily desk journal/planner and so on.