2022 in a Word…

You are all familiar that my ‘word’ for 2020 that I agonizingly picked and proudly announced to all who would listen (or read) was unhurried. It was such an elegant word. Calming in the wonderful frenzy that having kids and a house and a job in the modern era can be. And with the goal to slow down and take it easy I am perturbed to say that a large chunk of 2020 was slammed into whatever gear 2020 was and things became agonizingly unhurried. 

I was still a little salty over the debacle my 2020 word caused (at least in my mind) so 2021 was a year without a theme word. And to be honest I’m not so sure 2021 would have cooperated even if I did have the gumption to manifest its destiny. 

But another year older and another year wiser… and perhaps, if I may be so bold, another year more optimistic…

And I have decided that despite the last 2 years, despite the hectic, hurried, never-ending list of things to do, despite the cancelled plan after cancelled plan and always feeling a day late or a dollar short- I find myself surrounded by joy. All it took was me willing to see it. 

There has literally never been a better time to be alive…

Whether you are sick or injured; there has never been a better time in history to be sick or injured than right now in this place with doctors and medicines and hospitals and equipment. Or a better time to be in health- there has never been a better time in history to be healthy surrounded with so much potential for advancement- to learn anything you want to learn, to know anything you want to know, to go anywhere you want to go. 

For this reason, my word this year is celebrate. 

It seems we’ve been living life these last two years with a glass half empty… and in a world with Double Bond to fill that glass and with so many amazing things around us, with all the luxuries (which sometimes do feel like inconveniences- que the spinning color wheel on my computer whenever I get an important phone call)… life is really best lived with your [wine] glass half full.

I’m going to celebrate each time we get to be together and if there are cancelled plans, I am going to celebrate that the next time we can be together it’s only going to be more momentous and exciting. I’m going to treat every day like it’s the miracle it is… although some mornings I might wake up and be half way through the day before I realize what I’m meant to be celebrating… or I might even be crawling into bed waaaay past my bedtime I swore I’d treat more seriously. 

I hope you celebrate with me! Every day! All year long! Because despite what your feed says as you’re scrolling down it, it’s an amazing time to be alive. 

And if I am being entirely honest, with a line of new whites and our unparalleled reds- it’s an amazing time to drink beautiful wines. 

So without further ado… raise your glass half full, twinkling with Double Bond to a year to celebrate.

And if you’re out of Double Bond for said glass not to worry… I know a gal.