I predict that 2022 will be a year of startling revelations and the beginning of real change. What are your thoughts and feelings as you move into this fresh year?

Although I’m not one for saving my intentions solely for a new year, I do find myself thinking about things I most want to change that might have a positive effect on the state of our world right now.

Very high on my list is the intention to give small businesses my money and support more than ever and as much as I possibly can. I see the rise of control of government and corporations, and quite honestly, I find that disturbing. These institutions lack heart. Both will crush the “little person” when and if it suits them, and it appears to me that it suits them quite a lot lately.

Our strength and salvation, our exit from this stranglehold, will be found in the love, compassion, and cooperation we find with each other. That is why it is so important that we heal the division that has developed between us around the events of the past two years. I believe the division is being intentionally cultivated by the very institutions of which I speak. We will not survive this divided; we must come together in 2022.

I wish for you in 2022 all the happiness your hearts can hold. But of course, it is up to you to intend and create it. Happy New Year!

Inspirational Quotes:

“Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.” ~ Charles Lamb

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. To make an end is to make a beginning.” ~ T.S. Eliot

“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” ~ Aberjhani

2022: Year of Change | © Susan L Hart HartInspirations.com | Photo courtesy geralt | Friendly comments welcome

“Walking in a winter wonderland…” Every year at Christmas time, this classic song has a way of making Northern Hemisphere dwellers slip into nostalgic myopia. After all, what could be more romantic than a fresh snowfall for the holidays?

Being a hopeless romantic myself, when I began traveling I would still pine for snow during the holiday season. Hmm. The classic White Christmas. I miss it. Even in places that never have snow, a white Christmas seems to be the eternal dreamy ideal.  I’ve seen fake snow sprayed on many a shop window around the equator. Yes, it’s the big dream.

The reality? I loved snow during my childhood winters. Skating, tobogganing, building ice forts, snow ball fights – winter was my favorite season. It was fun. As an adult, not so much!

Adults are the ones who shovel snow and scrape ice and commute bad roads to and from work, day after day after grueling miserable freezing day. Winter can surely be a grind. That’s why I feel deep empathy right now for my friends up north. The-too-short-summer (it always is!) flew by way too quickly, and once again winter is setting in with a vengeance.

Oh yes, I will grant you there were days when a fresh powdery snow would cover the tree branches so magically, it would take my breath away. That horrible shoveling and winter driving would almost all seem worth it.

Almost. 😉

Winter Wonderland © Susan L Hart 2019, 2021 | HartInspirations.com

If ever words were visionary and tailored for our times, these by Albert Einstein have to be near the top of such a list:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was not just a scientist; he was also a huge observer of life and human behavior. He passed away in 1955 at the age of 76. I wonder what he would think of society today? Here are a few more observations from Albert that he might still stand by:

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”

“The important thing is to keep questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

Einstein’s Wisdom / Susan L Hart 2021 HartInspirations.com