I hope 2023 is about the kitchen because the kitchen is a laboratory for generating new means to say I love you. I hope 2023 is about car rides where the moon decides to hum along your loud karaoke sessions. I hope 2023 is about peeling oranges and feeding people. I hope 2023 is about pages flipping as stories grip your heart into overdrive. I hope 2023 is about finding belonging in stomach aching laughters and mascara stained pillows. I hope 2023 is about shared sense of humanity in music. I hope 2023 is about art and its sustenance more than it’s luxury. I hope 2023 is about warm hugs, entwined pinkies, acknowledging nods and ‘oh I see you’ smiles. I hope 2023 is about finding faith in colors. I hope 2023 is about satisfying cravings and meeting angels in the neon lights of the microwave. I hope 2023 is about tracing the cartography of joy with the compass of warmth. I hope 2023 is about finding a shelf, perhaps a poem sliced in half, to place your sadness and grief. I hope 2023 is about sunset walks and sunrise cups. I hope 2023 is about dry cleaning blankets of nostalgia. I hope 2023 is gentle, allowing you to gently fold scarfs of grief, hurt, death and despair. I hope 2023 is about crossing the tally mark tattoos of your ambitions. I hope 2023 is about finding comfort in your dreamscapes and daydreams. I hope 2023 is about self hugs and being kind to your heart and body. I hope 2023 is about realizations and making amends with restlessness. I hope 2023 is about soup and sleep. I hope 2023 is about remedies of home, healing your hauntings and hurtings. I hope 2023 is about people putting their heads on your shoulders. I hope 2023 is about you putting your head on people’s shoulders. I hope 2023 is about finding home in beating hearts, overworn pajamas and bonfires in wilderness. And I hope 2023 is about continuing to nurture that home. But most of all I hope 2023 is about hands — hands dancing, hands waving, hands folding, hands wiping, hands playing, hands moulding, hands scribbling, hands playing music, hands clenching, hands picking up, hands eating, hands patting, hands yearning, hands loving, hands holding, hands suffering with hope.
~ enigma
