New year, old year, time, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, before, after, cycle, circle, peaks and valleys, tincture of time, before, after, new normal, the days are long but the years are short, defining moments, before, after, keeps-on-slippin’-slippin’-slippin-into-the-future, the more things change, history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes, before, after, to everything there is a season, here we go again, when was that, has it really been so long, was it only, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, three years, two years, eleven months, ten months, nine months, eight months, six months, five weeks, two weeks. Gut punch, body blow, side kick, cross punch, back kick, front kick, upper cut, roundhouse kick, hammer punch. Here we go again. Before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, how are you, how is he, how is she, how is he, how is he, how are they, how is she, how is he, how are you, how is he, when was, how long has it been, wasn’t it just, when is, when will he be, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, circular bread, sound of a horn, apples, honey, sundown, melodies, tradition, ancestors, children, singing, cycles, circles, changes, customs, sacred, vulnerable, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, loss, gain, illness, injury, healing, death, growth, birth, evolution, profound, trivial, subtle, deep, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, what was twenty-one is now twenty, what was a handful is one finger less, there will be more, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, karma, laughter, pain, relief, old friends, new friends, the only thing that is constant is change, there is nothing new under the sun, play the hand you’re dealt, if I could save time in a bottle, hurry up, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, old year, unprecedented, time-honored, win, lose, before, after.
Breathe in, breathe out.
New year, apples, honey, challah.
New year, worries, possibilities, memories, fears, hope.
New year.
Breathe in, breathe out.
Shana tova umetukah.