We float peacefully into yet another year in a world overshadowed by conflict, disputes and environmental threats. Sometimes it can seem that there is little we can do but we do all have a chance to reflect and reset our personal compasses for the year ahead to make a difference.
Aboard nb Preaux we’re thinking of how we can move gently and reflectively into 2023
Smile – at each other, with strangers, and inside.
Laugh more – at the ridiculous, the just daft, and make each other laugh. We will laugh at the leak from the water tank when we’ve finally sorted it out!
Offer to do more for others whether you know them or not.
Welcome the chance to do new things, take new routes through life. Welcome the challenges as chances to learn and grow.
Savour life and remember simple is fundamental – a good use of our time and other precious resources. Simply living in the moment allows us to appreciate what we have.
Listen and learn more from the world and those around us. Everyone has something to teach us.
Observe the ways of the past, of nature, that can teach us much about how to live better.
Wonder at the world – if we learn how wonderful it truly is, we can’t do anything but seek to preserve it
Share with others the good times and bad, the times of plenty and poverty
Learn to live your life as you want but without hurting anyone or anything
Opt for the positive in everything
Waste nothing – reuse, recycle and reduce consumption. Remember waste not want not… and that goes for my wool stash too which is sadly low after Christmas creations so if anyone has any wool gathering dust we can offer it a good home onboard!
We’re taking on the annual winter closures and going with the flow, heading for the Ashby Canal now before planning trips south to Weedon, north to Ripon and west to Lancaster. On the way it’ll be slow – slow living, slow running and determined slow enjoyment of everything around us.
Wherever we go, we will be embracing a SLOW life in 2023. We wish you and yours the chance to experience the value of slow in the coming year.
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