#28 – (Mostly) Happy New Year!

It’s Jewish New Year’s Eve tonight, so firstly to all my readers I wish a happy and a sweet New Year.

The year can be a good one, but we also want a sweet, palatable year ahead that we just can’t get enough of.

It also means I get to make New Year’s resolutions and say ‘well at least that year’s behind us’ about 3 months early. I can then give up on the New Year’s resolutions by the time December comes around again.

We also dip apples in honey – a delectable combination which for some reason I never have again during the year.

For me the past year has been a pretty wild ride. In between 4 different jobs and 5 different lockdowns; I’ve been trying to settle into an unsettled world.

Looking around, I think ‘unsettled’ is the world I’d use. Governments are falling, temperatures are rising, the Victorian government are banning the swastika because of increasingly radicalised youth in my lovely corner of the world.

Not to mention we lost the Grand Final to Perth.

It’s a bittersweet start to the year without my family and my community around me. It’s easy to be bitter, disenfranchised, even angry and sceptical at a time like this.

But I think my resolution this year is to choose sweetness. Look past the dark clouds and find the silver linings.

Take the apple, and dip it into the honey during the year, not just tonight.

Next week: Everybody Wants To Rule The World