New Year Mantras: Faith, Water and Neighbors
Plus, one attainable, climate-friendly resolution for 2024
To wrap up the year on a very bright note, I went hiking with my sisters Rosanna and Sandra today. As usual, we talked about everything, including the future, which today meant 2024, the New Year.
At a yoga class this week, Rosanna’s instructor invited her yogis to embrace a mantra for the new year. Hers, the instructor said, would be ease.
Rosanna gave it some thought and decided on faith as her mantra, not in the religious meaning of the word, but in the sense of trusting the process, and having faith in herself and her loved ones’ choices. Wonderful mantra, don’t you think?
Sandra, for her part, chose the mantra water.
How she came up with said mantra starts with her 2023 resolution: to tip more. I didn’t know this about my sister, but apparently, she has a hard time tipping (which, as an aside, has become an issue for many of us, what with the default options on payment screens now being so high and public it feels you’re being guilt-bullied to tip generously, all the time, no matter for what service).
Anyhow, for 2024, Sandra’s resolution would be to not drink a daily Kombucha. Her reasons: (1) she will save 3 dollars a day (a whopping…
