Is 2023 Is the Year We Turn the Corner, Energetically Speaking?
As 2022 ended and we turned the corner into 2023, I suddenly felt as if I’d reached a safe place after coming to the end of an arduous journey. Even though Covid and its ominous new variants are still with us; the evil instigators of January 6 remain free; and I am still single. But, for so many of us, 2022 was a very rough year.
I faced a lingering respiratory illness that made it tough, and sometimes impossible, to maintain the active lifestyle I want to keep up for as long as possible. I lost my beloved malamute-Great Pyrenees mix to cancer, and I had a bad dog-related fall that ended with a hard hit to my temple, but it could have been so much worse — I got off easy. My two closest friends in New Mexico both lost beloved family members. And a great many people my age, mostly women, battled cancer throughout 2022. My younger son is doing undoubtedly the most challenging work of his life in his counseling internship, working with court-mandated abusers, and he ended a long-term relationship with his partner. It’s not been easy going for a lot of people.
Worldwide, we’ve had floods, earthquakes, fires, drought, and famine, a certain sign that global warming is not “over” or “behind us,” but largely ahead of us. Basically, we cannot say, “whew, I’m glad we made it through all of that,” whether we’re talking…
