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Speaking Truth to the Power of New Year’s Day

Speaking Truth to the Power of New Year’s Day

Leave the resolutions to the Babylonians

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Amy L Bernstein
Dec 26, 2023
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Babylonian Akitu Festival

You have the capacity to surprise yourself any day of the year.

A pox upon the dreaded New Year’s Day rituals of resolution, restitution, promises, and pledges that we heap upon our backs like sacks of coal, only to bend under the weight of it all until our bones are brittle and sore…and our resolutions go unfulfilled.

I could easily blame the Babylonians…

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