Reframe?

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Thank you, Ruth, for hosting Poetry Friday this week. Please visit her blog for a bowlful of Soulful Warming. To learn more about Poetry Friday, see What in the World is Poetry Friday.

It has been a challenging year, so I am trying to start 2026 with a new outlook. I am thinking of REFRAME as my OLW. I want to seek out the opportunities that lie within challenges. I need to believe possibilities always exist, even if they are difficult to spot at first glance.

I am feeling a little Rolling Stones - You Can’t Always Get What You Want…

or perhaps it is more Patti LaBelle - New Attitude…

or perhaps this poem by Jorie Graham captures it:

Prayer

By Jorie Graham

Over a dock railing, I watch the minnows, thousands, swirl   

themselves, each a minuscule muscle, but also, without the   

way to create current, making of their unison (turning, reinfolding,

entering and exiting their own unison in unison) making of themselves a   

visual current, one that cannot freight or sway by   

minutest fractions the water’s downdrafts and upswirls, the   

dockside cycles of finally-arriving boat-wakes, there where   

they hit deeper resistance, water that seems to burst into   

itself (it has those layers), a real current though mostly   

invisible sending into the visible (minnows) arrowing motion that forces change—

this is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets   

wat they want. Never again are you the same. The longing

is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. 

… read the rest here.

I’ll leave you with two quotes from Albert Eistein:

• We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

Hmmm, maybe REIMAGINE is even better. What do you think?

Wishing you all a wonderful 2026!