I'm just not good on New Year resolutions. Everywhere I look, they're popping up - bright and shiny, hopeful and energetic, new promises and fresh starts, beautifully expressed and documented ... However, the sense of disappointment when I don't manage to keep mine is just too dispiriting, that I'm not even going to try this year. I'm feeling the same way about goals, creative or otherwise - so I'm not going to have any. Time to hang loose, sit on a swing, and bunk off.
However, the New 52 idea from Peppermint has chimed somewhere, echoing down the corridors of my psyche, and touching a sense of .. playfulness? A tentative, emerging need for adventure? Something has been stirring - and pattering up to the surface came the memory of what follows in the page below, less than a week ago. New 52 doesn't require a huge commitment: more a kind of keeping an eye on oneself and what's flowing into and around one's life. As Peppermint puts it, it's about 'keeping an open mind'. I'm not even commiting myself to documenting it weekly (but, then again, I might find that I do). Here's Week 1 ...
Happy Monday! Especially if there's a little bit of you just tempted to do something even slightly out of the box ...
