Friday, January 7, 2022

Friday Writings #8: Resolutions

Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! Welcome to 2022. How did you ring in the new year? It was fairly low key around here. Darling Youngest had a few close (and fully vaccinated) friends over, while my husband ran them in a D&D campaign. I was nearby, adding stickers and washi tape to set up my 2022 planner while binging Avatar: The Last Airbender in the background.


If you are looking for a prompt to bend your words around, may I suggest New Year’s resolutions – whether you love them or loathe them, if you’ve made any for this upcoming year, or what the idea of resolutions means to you. Next Friday, Rosemary will have “secrets” as the suggested prompt.

I am happily accepting words on any topic, in either prose or poetry form, fiction or non-fiction. Please keep all prose to 369 words or fewer and one entry per person. Thanks, and here’s hoping 2022 will be kinder to all of us.


18 comments:

  1. Thanks Rommy, and welcome back everyone!

    I was out to a birthday party on New Year's Eve (within the various COVID limits pertaining here) but that was a luncheon. At night I watched the Sydney fireworks on TV, as I always like to do if I can. I'm convinced they are the most spectacular in the world.
    A friend I ran into today said that instead of Happy New Year he is wishing people `Happy No Fear'. I like that! Sensible caution is fine, and necessary, but extreme fear can make people crazy. So, I say Happy No Fear to us all!

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    1. Happy No Fear... I like it too!

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    2. I'm with you, Rosemary. The mass psychosis generated by media and politicians - I ignore them as much as possible. They only produce fear or anger with no room for anything else.

      I may live longer or get hit by a truck ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, either way, I think I'll have a better life by only listening to people I trust.

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  2. I quit making resolutions a long time ago and I am elderly. I've quit one vice, smokiing, but that didn't involve a formal resolution. That's a story in itself as was my struggle with opioids.
    Resolve is necessary for quelling a self controversial habit or trait, my two examples are extremes. I now have no desire for smoking anymore but my body still craves the opioid. On the latter I might welcome having them back by doctors' orders but for years I have left my stashes alone. Sort of like the CW song, "There stands the glass."
    HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLK.
    "HAPPY NO FEAR" as well if it suits. I kind of like a little fear if the danger is mine alone and it won't hurt others. Like the unvaccinated tennis star from the UK coming to AUS, no telling how many he might kill without having been jabbed. I would lock him up too.
    Nice prompting, Rommy.
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    1. We bad oldies, eh? I am very happy that I too quite smoking, in my late forties, and also stopped drinking to excess. (Opioids never my thing.) But New Year resolutions were not involved for me, either.

      That tennis player (Novak Djokovic) is not UK but Serbian, and his application for exemption was assessed, along with others, by a medical team who did not know their names. Djokovic was one of only a very few who we accepted. But then it appeared he had the wrong visa! Although I have no sympathy for his anti-vax opinions, I think he may have been treated unfairly in this instance. He is being kept in isolation until the matter is resolved, but is free to leave and go home any time he likes. However he is choosing to stay and challenge the Australian Government's decision in court next week.

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    2. I used to be quite proper about New Year's resolutions when I was younger. But since I had children I've always made them silly ones ("I resolve to watch more cartoons!", "I resolve to pounce on my husband!", "I resolve to try new tea!")

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    3. Like Jim, I don't do resolutions – but the idea of silly resolutions is something I could happily take on!

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  3. I received 2022 with my Piano Man and the not-so-Little Princess. We feasted, we watched The Book of Boba Fett, we shook our heads at the craziness that passed for New Year's parties on TV, and we stuffed our faces with grapes as the Times Square ball dropped. It wasn't too bad. Maybe, next year we'll get to celebrate with more people. Fingers crossed!

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  4. Good day, Poets and Storytellers!
    It's the new year and I can hardly write anything yet. The Chinese New Year is about 3 weeks away, and I have to start thinking about that spring cleaning.
    So i will just post a week old post today, and it's just a 'greeting card'. :)

    Have a Happy New Year!!

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    1. Always nice to 'see' you, and nice to be greeted.

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    2. I've heard how intense the cleaning before Chinese New Year can be. Good luck and happy new year!

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  5. Hi I hope you are all doing really well. Happy New Year

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  6. Happy Sunday! :) I love ATLA; such a great show!

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  7. A short story with transition to a resolution. So to speak. I'm a little late but thanks!!

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