The usual rhetoric is “New Year Resolutions” but maybe a more realistic approach would be to “New Year Dreams” for 2019.
What has been worrisome this past year is the disillusionment that seems to be epidemic in our lives. In Wilmington, the shock and now malaise of Hurricane Florence is reality. IDP’s (internally displaced people) are one of many realities. There is FEMA, debris removal, replacement and repair but our world has been rocked. This looks like the “new abnormal” as described by Governor Jerry Brown of California. The joy we regularly share on the media is Schadenfreude - you don’t have to speak German to identify with this experience.
I needed some therapy and here is what I found:
Actually the new dreams found me in the beauty of music and story. In a paradoxical way, our realities can produce our most beautiful dreams - a creative response that pushes all to a healing community.
Marvin
References:
Brown, Jerry “The new Abnormal”
https://theweek.com/speedreads/807164/gov-jerry-brown-says-massive-fires-are-new-abnormal-california
Smith, T. W. (2018). Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another’s Misfortune. Little, Brown Spark.
Renee Fleming and the New York Philharmonic New Years Eve Concert
Andrea & Matteo Bocelli, Fall on Me
Vijay Gupta - Street Symphony
Hage, M. L. (2013). Healing Music
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