Yay for you, for me, for the two of us
Sailing through 2021 with little fuss.
Sure we had ups, we had downs
In fact the year had us spinning round and round.
But we stood steady on terra firm
By allowing our imagination to learn
Never to stop, never to fear or yield
‘cause our mind is an unmined inventive field.
Fields of daisies and fields of weeds
No matter what crops up from our creative seeds
Each sprout releases doubt, releases us
To be exactly who we absolutely must
Must we take on too many duties and “have-to-do’s”
We wondered, and from the answer “NO,” we grew
In appreciation of relaxation, meditation, letting go
Of the need to tackle this, tackle that, back and fro.
So the inner me (Pam) toasts the outer you (Pamela)
For a year stretched in yoga while avoiding life’s drama
Writing our heart out – you and me – where we’ll always find
Truth and beauty and love forever and ever entwined.
we made it! here’s to 2022
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May we “make it” even better! ❤
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Amen
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Very well analysed, Pam(ela)
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We thank you. 🙂
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🙂
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Lovely, Pam! Happy New Year to you and you! 😀
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I still like the rhyming aspect of poetry. Thanks to Nicholas Baker in THE ANTHOLOGIST for giving me the go-ahead to rhyme through my life. 🙂 HNY, Merril!
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Not only is this creative, but also a positive message for all. On to a positive 2022 and wishing you and yours the best!
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Positive is how I roll…. into the future. Time After Time. 🙂 Many good wishes to you, Frank, in 2022.
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Pam, congratulations to Pam and Pamela for a year well lived. May 2022 bring many reasons to smile.
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Pam and Pamela say THANKS to you – all of you – Bernadette. Here’s to good cookin’ and livin’ in 2022. ❤
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Keep smiling!
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Smiles turn frowns upside down. Thanks for giving me a smile right now. To the New Year!
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That makes my day!
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Pam / Pamela, this is so beautiful and heart-warming — touching and insightful reflections about yourself, this year and what really matters in your life! I feel such harmony and tranquillity reading your post; its peace radiates strongly and I am happy that you’ve found ‘Truth and beauty and love forever and ever entwined.’ Wishing the same for you in the New Year, with much love, Annika xx❤️
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I believe you’ve found those three elements entwined as well, Annika/Annika. Happy New Year across the seas from my home to yours. (P.S. I hope you received my e-mail…) ❤
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Happy New Year, Pam!
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May it be the happiest, healthiest yet! ❤
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Yes!! 😀
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Wonderful journey. Happy New Year, Pam. ✨🎉✨
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May 2022 be a sweet and happy journey for each of us. In good health and good cheer. ❤
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What a lovely, reflective conversation, Pam. That’s the nice thing about a journey; we always can begin again, and choose the keep traveling.
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I suppose that’s one of the good things of “ringing in the new year.” We can choose to see each January 1 as a new journey ahead. Happy trails to you! ❤
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That was the best New Year poem I’ve read. Love it. Happy New Year to both of you, Pam.
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Awww, thanks Marlene. We need to talk to ourselves every once in a while, with love and a bit of humor, as well. Happy New Year to you…and you. ❤
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I agree. Accompanied by the beautifully impressionistic photos, my eyes had a feast
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Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed poem and photos – a new start to the new year. ❤
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Happy New Year, Pam! Love this…love you! xo
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Sending love right back with wonderful hopes for another successful publishing year for you Jill. Can’t wait to start your new book!! ❤
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Same here xox
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Thanks! Your way with words is beautiful!
Happy New Year to you.
Nancy
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Well, this comment shows you have a wonderful way with words also, Nancy. 🙂 Many thanks, and Happy New Year. ❤
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Hi Pam, I must admit that 2021 was a but rough for me too. I nearly lost my Dad and Michael was also very sick. He is still on an antibiotic after 5 months. Here’s to a better 2022.
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2021 gave us so many challenges. But we made it through; may 2022 be smoother this year. Blessings and hopes for a happy and healthy New Year, Robbie. ❤
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Oh sorry for that thank God for everything?
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Well said, Pam. I am so ready for 2022. Happy New Year!
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Agreed, Jacqui. I think so many of us are breathing hope and health into 2022. May it be so. ❤
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What a fun poem and tribute to you and your year Pam. May we continue to learn, love, and sail smoothly through life. Happy New Year and big hugs!
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“Sail smoothly” – hmmm, perhaps not possible, since we all hit rough seas during a year. But. May our ship stay afloat in 2022!! 🙂 Big hug to you, my friend.
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A beautiful poem and artwork. Happy New Year, Pam and Pamela.
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The good news is that there’s only “two” of me. I worry when a third one chimes in. 🙂 Here’s to blogging in 2022 with humor, insight, dogs, and love.
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I agree we need all of those things. Thanks, Pamela.
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Happy New Year Pam, wishing you a year that is even more relaxing and creative than the last!
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2021 was extremely challenging for so many of us, Andrea. Your posts always find some shelter in our storms. May you (and I) continue to do so! To a creative and productive (and safe) 2022. ❤
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P.S. I submitted to Toasted Cheese. You inspired me! Thanks.
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Good for you Pam, wishing you lots of luck!!!
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Happy New year to you my dear friend and yours!! We made it through together. May 2022 be kind to you. Happy writing and reading. xo
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To kindness between people and nations in 2022. How wonderful that you use the “K” word – one that will help our 2022 be a sweet one. YES, to our writing and reading….and blogging. ❤
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This is ABSOLUTELY PURR-FECT,
I especially liked this line: “Never to stop, never to fear or yield,” just like in Tennyson’s Ulysses.
Happy New Year! 😀
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I’m no Tennyson, but as a Wight writer, I know that if we stop to fear, we’ll never create. To us, Marian, and ignoring our fear of how our creations are viewed and/or accepted To not caring, but to CARING in our words. Cheers to a wonderful blogger and writer and woman. ❤
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What a nice way to end the year, Pam. A letter to you from you. Brilliant. Happy New Year to you!
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I recommend it to all of us. Write to ourselves and see what we’re thinking, feeling, and planning for 2022. 🙂 Happy New Year, and thanks so much for joining me here.
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Happiest of New Years, dear Pam, and may 2022 bring you many many stories to share with us!
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So.Many.Stories. I hope I have enough time in 2022 to tell them. Time is the most challenging barrier to jump across, for me. To making the most of every day with words, hugs, and love. Happy New Year my friend. May it be cozy and safe and full of joy in your little house in the woods.
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Beautiful, Pam. Cheers to the New Year around the corner!
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Cheers to a safe, creative, and hopefully joyful 2022, Rosaliene.
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Happy New Year to the two of you from the two of me!
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Yay! Wonderful to hear from both of you, Janis. Life is so much easier when we acknowledge and balance out the two, isn’t it? 🙂 Happy New Year. ❤
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To your inner and outer self, for all the reasons that make the New Year a bright prospect, Pam, cheers!!
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If only we more often recognized the need to listen to both sides… of us. Here’s to a balance of the inner and out. And here’s to 2022. ❤
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I think you just described the secret of joy, Pam. This is something that I’m working on with mixed success, but I’ve read your poem twice just to reinforce the “flow.” It’s pretty wonderful when you hit the mark or miss the mark and say to yourself “good enough.” Wishing you a fabulous new year with many dreams come true and days of love and laughter.
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Ah, the flow. Yes, if we release the need to always be “right” or “perfect,” we find the joy in just … BEING.
To your Being, Diana, from mine. May 2022 bring us more creativity, joy, love. ❤
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You make such a lovely duo full of wisdom.
Happy 2022! Bring it on!
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Bring it on. And BRING IT ON (from both of me). Love and hugs to you in 2022, Dale.
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Woot! Thank you, Pam and Pamela! 😉
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Happy new year to you my friend
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Thank you. 🙂
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You’re welcome my friend,
Hope you’re safe out there from this ongoing antivirus?
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I am, thank you. As I hope you are, too.
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Ur welcome my friend
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I’m safe, lots of restrictions in places
Were are you from?
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The constant challenges of life for Pete and Peter or Pam and Pamela. We can all identify with the inner conflict. Wishing you a fabulous 2002, Pam!
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Listening to both sides (now) from win and lose and still somehow…. Somehow life’s reflections help us make it through. So make it so, for 2022, Pete.
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Here’s to finding just the right balance.
Namaste!
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Namaste my friend. xo
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Happy New year to you my friend
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Awesome picture!
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Thanks much.
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Happy New Year, Pam! 🙂
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May 2022 be a productive, fun, and loving one for you Barbara!
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Thank you, Pam – right back at you! 🙂
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Happy New Year to beautiful you – the inner one and the outer one – and your beautiful words, Pam! Xxx
Your last paragraphs reminded me of a meme I recently saw on Facebook about the “no-drama lama” practicing yoga. 🙂
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Ha. I probably LOOK like a llama when practicing yoga, but fortunately no mirrors..and no drama in the pose. 🙂 xo
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YES! 🦋 We’re flying unbounded into 2022! 😍😘
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On our wings! Beautiful, Bette.
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Beautiful as always!
Wishing you a happy, healthy and joyful 2022!
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Thanks Donna. I wish you the same. With good food thrown in as well. Oh, and good books. 🙂
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Roll on 2022! Happy New Year everyone. 🙂
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After the holiday I’m round enough to roll like a ball into the New Year. 🙂 Off too exercise.
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-giggles- me too! Far too much chocolate mousse cake and flourless orange cake!
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Where? I’ll take some! Oh, shoot, no more rolling around, huh? 🙂
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All gone, I’m afraid. 😦 Been mowing like crazy to try to work off some of those calories.
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Happy new year from me to you. Thank you for being a friend even if only through the blog.
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Our blogosphere creates such wonderful friendship. Cheers!
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Cheers ☺️
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Creative! May the creative seeds keep sprouting Pam. Love and new year hugs. Happy New year.
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Oh, and your words always bloom into such beautiful bouquets, Balroop. To our words, and the joy in using them to spread beauty, hope, love. ❤
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Thanks! 😊🤗
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It can be tiring when we have to deal with two personalities. Maybe we should embrace both. I am trying and reading your beautiful post helps. Happy New Year and thanks for taking us along on your journey.
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I totally believe in embracing all aspects of us, Gerlinde. The only way to stay sane, most times. ;-0 Love and hugs to you in your beautiful part of the world. Happy cooking/baking in 2022.
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A very creative piece! Have a Wonderful New Year!
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Here’s to a creative 2022. Thank you, Estela.
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So lovely and creative! And, love, beauty and truth are important teachers in our journey! Have a blessed year!
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With love, beauty and truth, the world would surely be a kinder, more peaceful and joyful place. All we can do is use these tools as a guide in our own lives, for sure. Many thanks, Patricia. P.S. Have you heard of/read The Electric Kingdom? My 13-year-old grandson wanted it for his birthday, so I got a copy for him and one for me. It’s … electrifying.
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Lovely analysis Pam. Here’s to a better 2022! Happy New Year! ❤
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Cheers to that, Debby! Hugs and love. xo
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Ditto my friend. Hugs your way. xx ❤
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Happy 2022
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Thank you – and Happy 2022 to you.
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Happy New Year Pam. Maybe in 2022 I too will channel my inner poet 🙂
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Oh, I know you have an inner poet, Roy, because you are an outer poet for sure! Poetry in motion (with your running) and poetry in “being.” 🙂 Cheers!
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Such a wonderful conversation…you are a creative soul!!! Wishing you a New Year full of blessings! 🙂
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Hi Linda. Thank you so much. Creativity and fun are always intertwined for me. Well, I guess for both of me…. 🙂 xo
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After such a… trying 2021, your soothing words about it and a brighter future remind me of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
Thank you for making 2021 seem like a growing experience!
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Wow. I wasn’t sure about the Poe quote at first, but he sure knows how to use words, and without reality, we wouldn’t have LIFE in all of its intricacies. Thank you so much for your insightful comment!
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Aww Pam.. So loved this message from your inner you to outer you and then to all of us..
Your words resonated too…. I have been so grateful in my navigation of 2021 too… It showed me more inner strength, more inner peace and more creative skills..
Loved your poem.. and images..
Sending you lots of Hugs and much love for an even brighter Illuminating 2022….
Happy New Year! ❤
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I think sometimes we forget to have these INNER conversations, and they really help! Happiness to your Inner Being in 2022. ❤
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I am always taking to myself Pam… LOL…. the trick is Listening…. 😉 lol
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I would love to know which editing programme you used to achieve the impressionistic image
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Happy New Year right back at you. So true about having an inner and outer self. I’ve felt that tug this last year, too. It’s all a balancing act.
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Sometimes I teeter, and sometimes I totter. but overall, the two of me get along pretty well. 🙂
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Beautiful + Beautiful + Beautiful 😍
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Thank you! ❤
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Wonderful capture of 2021, Pam! Congratulations to you… and you! You made it. I made it too! That makes us two! Wishing you a blessed and happier 2022!
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Yay to all four of us!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Wishing you great things in 2022! ❤ 🙂
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So well said. Happy New Year.
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Cheers! And thanks so much for reading and enjoying.
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Happy New Year, Pam! Thanks for adding a bit of colour to 2021.
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Oh, yes, I just noticed that now that we are in the middle of a snowstorm – all white against white. 🙂 Happy New Year!
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Tough conversation
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True, but in the end, meaningful. 🙂
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Good Poem. All hail 2022 because it is amongst us!👏
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Yes it is! Hailing good wishes…
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Aweosome content. I like it so mucj
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I’m so glad, Thank you, and Happy 2022.
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Likewise.
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Here’s to you and to us all! I really loved these lines:
Must we take on too many duties and “have-to-do’s”
We wondered, and from the answer “NO,” we grew
Love to YOU!
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Getting away from the guilt of not accomplishing those “must do’s” is challenging! Love to you, Elizabeth. ❤
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Ahhh. Lovely. Hope the year is off to a great start. I especially loved this line: “So the inner me (Pam) toasts the outer you (Pamela)”
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Well, I think we need to toast our innermost self, who helps us get through life’s vagaries. 🙂 Thanks so much for reading and commenting.
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I couldn’t agree more 😊🙏🏽😊
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the idea of inner/outer me & me is a great one!! hope your 2022 is off to a great start!
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The inner me says a huge HI! and the outer me is waving hi with verve. 🙂
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🙂
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