New Year’s Eve reflection. There is something special about waking up early on New Year’s Eve – before fireworks, expectations, and midnight celebrations begin. When the morning is still untouched, the coffee tastes better than ever, the silence is truly quiet, and the body slowly works its way into wakefulness.
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This New Year’s Eve reflection is not about promises or resolutions, but about pausing with what has been and with what is.
Life has returned to something resembling normal, even though there will be a celebration later today. New Year’s Eve. We usually have friends over, but this year we celebrate with the family at home. We’ll serve beef fillet, potato terrine, and a small starter with salmon. For dessert, ice cream with fruit, meringues, and chocolate sauce. I haven’t quite decided yet whether it will be green pepper sauce or a classic pepper sauce. There is still time to let that settle.
The year has passed.
It has held joyful moments, more difficult ones – simply a life, as life often is. I didn’t work during most of the year, apart from a short period at the beginning. Life changed. The youngest moved in. Many things became… hmm. Aha. Yes – but no. Everything in between.
Yet today feels more stable.
More oh, this is one of those days than what is happening now.
More ground beneath my feet.
New Year’s Eve reflection – a year finding its ground
This year, I have come closer to myself. I have started studying, developed my blog, and written a story that now only needs a final review. I’ve had several projects at home, and the blog has found more readers. Not in a loud way – but enough people who return, who stay for a while, who read.
Texts are downloaded. Small emails arrive now and then. Words from people sharing how they are doing. That matters more than numbers.
Soon there will also be a new e-book. I have created new pages – Presence & Conversation and my small mini-course Find Your Way Back to Yourself. Some have taken part in the course, and I’ve had conversations via Teams that I feel grateful to have held. Conversations that were allowed to take time. That were real.
And then there was the music.
Thåström in Karlstad.
A concert that went straight into the body and stayed there. A reminder of something I have always known, but sometimes forget – who I am when I stop trying to be anything else. That feeling of recognition. Of standing steady in what is true, even when it rubs and aches a little.
Life has been interesting this year.
I have learned things. About myself. About pace. About boundaries.
And I have been given the chance to live more as who I am.
More gently.
More sustainably.
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A greeting at the end of the year
I want to wish you a gentle ending to 2025 – whether you are dressed for a party or celebrating in quiet stillness.
I also wish you a good 2026, and more calm in the world around us.
I wish that everyone may be well.
That no one has to live in fear.
That bellies are filled.
That people may live their lives with safety, warmth, and dignity.
Reflection – between the lines
Perhaps it is not the grand promises that carry us into a new year, but the quiet wishes. The ones that hold care – for ourselves and for one another. To live not in fear or pressure, but in something that feels a bit like coming home.
AHA – between the lines
When the world feels fragile, it is easy to want to do more, say more, understand more. But sometimes the most important thing is to remain human: to wish well, to truly see one another, and not turn away from needs – neither our own nor those of others.
Live today.
Yesterday has already come to rest in history, and tomorrow waits somewhere ahead.
But right now – this is where life happens.
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