What I Would Like This Year

Writing for Modern Women

New years resolutions are not my thing. I never knew about them until sometime after moving to England for the first time. I prefer to make decisions as they become apparent; I need to change or adjust otherwise I face difficulty.

This year I only want to be content in each day. I want to enjoy the present moment. Part of this will be nurturing my friendships, and enjoying my garden. Yesterday, I decided to change a flower bed completely, as one plant has decided it will no longer share space and has taken over, smothering other lovely plants. A friend, another keen gardener is coming to help me do it. It is a two woman job.

I have given a home to a man who was homeless. His documents were stolen sometime. I am helping him to become “official” again. He has made my life so much easier by shouldering a lot of the housework and repairing minor repairs. You can read about it here: The No Longer Homeless Man.

My daughter lives about eighty miles away. Recently, we had a difference of opinion and I am trying to find common ground. For the first few weeks this consumed me, but now I have taken a step back. I will not let anything consume me anymore. I love my daughter, she is a wonderful human being, everyone adores her, though none as much as I. The neighbor's in my street ask after her frequently having watched her grow up since she was seven. I know of few young women with as much talent as she has. Before the pandemic, I discovered several young women working in hair salons and a jeweler's who had admired her at school.

I live with poor health which seems to get diverse complications. I accept this and adapt. In the summer of 2019, I rose very early and would water my garden before the heat of day and then sit with my first cup of coffee in my rocker, surveying my garden and observe growth and weeds that needed lifting. The following summer my rising was later, and has not changed. I water in the cool of evening only now instead of twice daily. My garden doesn’t seem to mind.

Everyone who comes to my home says “what a lovely home” I have. The compliment pleases me as creating a home matters to me. I would have liked to have been an interior designer in another life.

So, I have no specific goals in mind except to enjoy the present. I feel good about this. My studies are behind me and my clinician days are behind me. I am consulted at times, and that suits me just fine.

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