It was this one that provided me with my word - Enough. As soon as I read it, I knew that this was the word to guide me throughout 2018. Not in the angry sense of yelling "I've just had enough!" and stomping away, but more in the way of recognizing that you have tried enough, done enough, eaten and drunk enough, gratitude that you have enough of what you need, you are enough.
The Christmas season often makes me feel that I've never done quite enough. This is a completely internal thing, and not something anyone else has ever made me feel or forced upon me. It can be almost paralyzing at times, to the point that I may not do enough because I'm frozen by my inability to do more. It may sound silly, but enough spoke to me, and I'm glad to begin 2018 with a lovely freeing feeling of enough.
A wonderful choice of a word Bonny! My "one word" this year is Explore, but I will be adding Enough to my journal notes.
ReplyDeleteThis word is powerful, Bonny! I love the positive context you are using it (because, I am in the stomp around, shouting 'I've had enough!!' camp). Thank you for opening my eyes and seeing new possibilities - may this year be just that for you!
ReplyDeleteI adore this word. It was my OLW a few years ago and it has never left me. It is a wonderful guiding word.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the new blog to visit.
I’m thinking, that word is so right.
ReplyDeleteThough, I was listening to a radio station of top-ten Beatle’s songs, one really struck me as the right one (moreso a phrase) it is “let-it-be”. It allows patience, gratitude, compromise and “enough” to be included.
Christmas is a full season, and I reveled in this last one but it also was quite enough and now I long for quietude.
Happy new year.
I love reading everyone's words and intentions, and how they came upon them. Wishing you a happy new year along with enough quietude.
DeleteYes!! I totally understand what you are saying. Your post sums up what happened to me a few years ago (after major surgery) and that is the year I said I had enough. That moment changed my life. Enough is a freeing word, Bonny. Thank you for your post and for your amazing pictures. (Lene is a treasure, too.)
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are amazing and so very lovely! I really get what you are saying about enough, this is something I need to ponder on too...thank you for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous winterness. there is a mary poppins quote about enough, but I cannot remember it now for the life of me
ReplyDelete"Enough is as good as a feast"! Thank you for the reminder!
DeleteThis is a great word and as others have said I love the positive vibe it brings!
ReplyDeleteExcellent word choice! I love her blog - a few years ago, she wrote a Christmas Eve post which was one of the most beautiful things I've ever read anywhere.
ReplyDeleteOn to 2018!
I love this word. There's also Kon-Mari/Swedish Death Cleaning shade of meaning for me. I've been seeing the hashtag #NoBuy2018 and while I'm not moved enough to pledge not to buy stuff, I'm reminded that many times, I actually have enough already.
ReplyDeleteI think that's a great take on the word enough and I look forward to seeing how it plays out for you this year.
ReplyDeleteEnough, yes enough is very positive word with lots of nuance.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of "enough." It brings a good perspective to life. Best wishes for 2018.
ReplyDeleteThis is a profound word, Bonny. It applies to everything! I love it. I may have to use it next year. I, too, often feel that I am not enough, that I have not done enough, but you know, we are perfectly imperfect, so we are always enough. Thanks for making me think about this.
ReplyDeleteFeeling like you haven't done enough is a difficult feeling and I really puzzle over where that comes from. I can't blame anyone else, but I hope that a year spent thinking about "Enough" will help me convince myself (and you, too)!
DeleteA perfect word for 2018.
ReplyDeleteYour photos of the frost are fantastic!!!
Perfect, Bonny. and those photos are amazing!
ReplyDeletebeautiful word and it sounds like you! May your year be enough!!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, what a perfect WORD!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful word. I love it.
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