{"id":235,"date":"2010-01-09T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T19:28:14","slug":"word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto by Lynn Cummings<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

For the past few days, I have been thinking and thinking and thinking about the New Year and what I want to do with 2010. You see, the New Year has always been a time of brazen hope for me<\/a>. For this reason, the New Year counts as one of my favorite holidays in the calendar. And as I’ve been journaling and pondering and on the phone with Shelly<\/a> discussing our exciting hopes for 2010, I have been thinking about and working on my traditional list of what I would like to do in 2010.<\/p>\n

And then I read this blog entry<\/a> from Andrea Scher. To quote:<\/p>\n

Have you picked your word of the year? Seems like the interwebs are abuzz with this idea and I love that it has taken a firm foothold over New Year’s Resolutions. I’m actually amazed that resolutions have stuck around so long. For most people they don’t work! and you know why? because they are all about deprivation. They remind us what’s wrong with us, what there is to fix. They tell us that if we were only more (fill in the blank) we would be happy\/successful\/a good person.<\/p>\n

That’s the old way, right? Soooo 2009.<\/p>\n

This is the year of the list. The Mondo Beyondo List<\/a>, the word of the year, the year that we create intentions, follow our dreams, and let our passions and our joys guide us instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I LOVE<\/em> this idea!! This resonated with me like a perfect crystal with a New Age junkie. I snatched it up and watched the light refract through it and said “Yes! Here is how I will organize my coming year!”<\/p>\n

I could not settle on a single word, so I picked two. My two words for 2010 are Joy and Trust. I want to learn to be joyful again, and I want to trust in both my dreams and in people. I realized recently that I am isolated and lonely and it’s entirely my own doing. I keep everyone at arm’s length in order to protect myself from being hurt. And although this may be a great defense strategy, it is also very isolating. And so I’m opening up, letting go, and reaching out to touch people, which is really really really<\/em> scary for me and will have to be done in small, incremental steps.<\/p>\n

But hopefully, by the end of 2010, I will be joyful and connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Lynn Cummings. For the past few days, I have been thinking and thinking and thinking about the New Year and what I want to do with 2010. You see, the New Year has always been a time of brazen hope for me. For this reason, the New Year counts as one of my … Continue reading Word of the Year<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}