words of the year often just come.
rise was the word coming to me.
i focused it for a couple of difficult months
and chose it as my 2016 word.
yet, it began to chafe and feel not quite right after i made it official.
nothing new
that's happened a few times in the fall.
often there is a patch word--a word to get through a season.
i debated between rise and another word that came to me often this summer, content.
i couldn't decide.
and then it came to me.
alchemy.
and my soul sighed.
that was just the right fit.
taking all the principles of past words (nourish, soar, make do & mend, heal, magic, light, daily, fierce) and future intentions (thinking of roots, branches, growth, compost, possibility) and meshing them into something beautiful.
hopeful.
the ability to take the ordinary and make it into gold.
and i love the word itself.
alchemy.
alchemy.
alchemy.
let's do this.
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