Word of the Year retrospective

[sonia]

2021: Respect
2020: Kindness
2019: Warmth
2018: Care
2017: Solace
2016: Ease
2015: Music
2014: Welcome
2013: Relax
2012: Connection
2011: Delight
2010: Flow

It feels like each word is still active in my life. Lots of music this year! Still inviting ease and relaxation. Getting care, taking care of things around the house. It's good to see the layers of improvement in my life around the earlier ones. Solace stands out as one I still need, and also that wasn't quite the word I meant, or at least there's more complexity, but I never did find the word I wanted. Comfort maybe.

Comments

[asakiyume]

This is a wonderful list. And these are words for things or actions that you'd like to see more of in your own life and in the world, right? Some of them are so rich in shades and nuances; all of them I'd love to see/have/do more of in the world.

PS: And to think you've been doing this since 2010!

[sonia]

Feel free to use one or all! They're all things I need more of in my own life, wanting to receive them and also enact them along the way.

I was desperate for my life to improve in 2010. In retrospect I started a lot of patterns around that time that have worked out reasonably well. And my life has improved, thank goodness (even as the political situation has completely devolved).