Breathe here now

View east from Royal Ave. path, Fern Ridge Wildlife Area (Dec. 31)

Here’s to the first real day of the year, past the holiday-focused nature of past weeks. Umami, prosaic, a stepping away from the sweet and celebratory—that’s what I’m talking about. One-two, buckle my shoe. Back to being flush with reality—truth in energy—a deeper joy than the forced calendrical consensus of Christmas commercialism.

Let’s hear it for things as they are! I mean how they really are, right here right now, not as click-baited and commentated in the caustic and cruel caverns of manipulating mediation breathlessly broadcasted to every laptopped and handheld device.

Breathe here now. Happy January 2nd!