Yes I try to make this post each year. Yes every time I’m apt least two thirds inebriated.
May this year be your year to grow!
edit: I didn’t take a good fireworks pic, here’s a fitting 2022 image I made instead?
I've witnessed the most striking firework display of my life. There are very few tall buildings in Brussels, so within my view is about half of the city. And I saw the entire half launch fireworks at the same time. It was beautiful, it was loud, it was sulfury, and it was amazing. Something in me shifted when I saw that. Happy New Year, everyone. May this be a good year for you.
P. S. I went back and labeled each "Happy New Year" post by year. One of those, from 2016, is not tagged as #newyear.
(A small reminder I'm writing this from the future, wooOoOooo 12.53pm January 1st) The fireworks in my city began at about 10pm last night and petered out by 11pm, I think everyone but the council got itchy fingers and went for it. Then once everything had settled, the council midnight boom-fest began! No peace for anyone, 2023 arrives guns-blazing. It's a loverly summer day to bring in a new year and people are out walking their dogs, I saw some stranger waiting for a taxi in our cul de sac (I suspect he got lucky last night and now begins a trek home) and there's this wonderful calmness about everything today. Nobody is in a rush. Big ups to everyone on Hubski, I hope 2023 is the year you do the thing you've always wanted to do.
Hey yall, I'm kinda back. Took vacation from December 15th to January 2nd, and today is my first day back at work (which is where I read Hubski). Pretty successful hermit-ing for a couple of weeks, with the exceptions of Xmas with the family, NYE with one other couple, and a memorial for a friend who passed. It was perfect. I am transforming from the social butterfly I was, back into a caterpillar.