Tag Archives: New Year

The New Year

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

Happy New Year!!! New Year traditions are as varied as resolutions (I don’t make them), always interesting and fun, not always healthy but who cares? … THE NEW YEAR bannock in Ireland grapes in Spain with wassail in England first-footing … Continue reading →

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Old Photograph

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

Happy New Year to you all. It’s a time of looking forward but also of looking back; the year has rolled over and stored memories come back to haunt me … OLD PHOTOGRAPH the past opens at this tiny universe … Continue reading →

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A Clean Slate

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

Happy New Year! We’ve turned the corner, turned over a new leaf, feel brand new with resolutions made (I don’t make them), a sense of looking forward to new adventures, challenges … A CLEAN SLATE laundered   starched                                  ironed  and folded … Continue reading →

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3 Ice Haiku

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Joanna M. Weston

We’ve been in a deep freeze for days. I’ve enjoyed huddling over the computer,  or a wood-stove, and considering the world from inside. We keep the birds fed and hope they are warm too …   a white chair                                  caught … Continue reading →

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Cosmic

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Joanna M. Weston

I don’t make New Year resolutions (my resolution is not to make them) but I’ve been pondering my place in the universe, myself a micro-dot in the scale of the cosmos. I have no conclusion except that I do have … Continue reading →

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The Future

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Joanna M. Weston

This week between Christmas and New Year always strikes me as a bit weird. We’ve scarcely finished with one deeply rooted celebration and we’re into another on an entirely different level. The two are linked but I’m not sure how … Continue reading →

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Apple Spring

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Joanna M. Weston

Good Friday precedes Easter Sunday. In other words, dark times are followed by joy, clouds by sunshine, night by day, tears by laughter. Just the way it is: the changes guaranteed by life. So, we’ll survive Good Friday, and have … Continue reading →

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New Year haiku

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Joanna M. Weston

New Year’s Day. Probably most people are tired, having stayed up to see the New Year in with fireworks and celebration. We watched “Royal Canadian Air Farce”, and went to bed happy. New Year resolutions? I make the same one … Continue reading →

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Timed Hands

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Joanna M. Weston

2013. Another Year. I’ve made one New Year’s resolution every year for a decade or three: not to make a New Year’s resolution. And I’ve managed to keep it so far, intend to go on making it: it’s one I … Continue reading →

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Christmas Tea

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Joanna M. Weston

We’re in that weird week between Christmas and New year, between two festivals, yet life just goes on. As a child I thought I’d fallen out of time somehow, that I was in a nowhere place, off the edge of … Continue reading →

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