Word of the Year for 2021
I doubt I need to say that 2020 didn't go as planned. For anyone. It's interesting though, as it always is, that the word I chose for the year ended up being exactly the right one. It took on a completely different meaning than I had imagined it would. I chose the word DANCE for 2020. I didn't really know how the word would play out but early into the whole COVID shut down, it became clear that 2020 was going to be about rhythms ... everything changed, basically overnight, and we were left to figure out what our new rhythms would be. Here in Australia, or at least where we live, life has basically gone back to normal ... just with COVID protocols and increased cleaning, etc. For us as a family, life went back to 'normal'-ish but then our puppy was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. We walked a bittersweet couple of months with him, enjoying every minute that we had left. Life had already slowed to it's new rhythm and we slowed it even more to