Happy New Year Greeting (original art)

2019: It’s been a challenging year, yet also not without its minor triumphs -- with people of conscience gathering and speaking up.

Once more, I'm making the same wishes (only more modestly) : praying for breakthroughs, again, personal and global.

May bodies and minds be free of old suffering; may we, finally, find the courage, discipline, sanity and clarity to clear fear hurdles, break off self-destructive habits and step closer to that oft dreamt of Transformation!

Thank you, Friends, for sharing the journey with me, here. I wish you Peace & Joy on your Way _/|\_

May we continue, in the New Year, to ward off the dark, as best we can...

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.

―T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Below, a poem of mine on vulnerability and tenacity:

Hope

Hope’s not quite as it seems,
it’s slimmer than you’d think
and less steady on its feet

Sometimes, it’s out of breath
can hardly see ahead
and cries itself to sleep

It may not tell you all this
or the times it cheated death
but, if you knew it, you’d know

how Hope can keep a secret.

© Yahia Lababidi

[Photograph taken by me in Peru]