The holiday season came and went like a flash. It was fun and very relaxing and I wouldn’t have minded for it to have continued for a little longer. We just celebrated our Armenian Christmas on the 6th and usually our tree comes down straight after this date. However it is still up and bright…
With all the buzz of the New Year, new resolutions are made and new intentions are set. I don’t have any resolutions as such but I have dreams and projects that I wish to start working on this year. I am so excited by it all.
I am also excited to reveal my word for 2013. My word for 2012 was ALLOW. This word couldn’t have been more apt, I allowed myself to grow, to go towards the fear and to do things I wouldn’t have normally done before. I cannot recall how I came to decide on my word for 2013 but I find it so right for what I want to do this year.
CULTIVATE.
Cultivate – It is not a delicate word, nor a beautiful one. It means ‘work’ to me and that is what I intend to do this year.
cul·ti·vate (k l t -v t )
tr.v. cul·ti·vat·ed, cul·ti·vat·ing, cul·ti·vates
1.
a. To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till.
b. To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants).
2. To grow or tend (a plant or crop).
3. To promote the growth of (a biological culture).
4. To nurture; foster. See Synonyms at nurture.
5. To form and refine, as by education.
6. To seek the acquaintance or goodwill of; make friends with.
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Love this image, first of all. You may know that “cultivate” was my word for 2012. I’ve been spending some time on looking back at the year and noticing what and how I cultivated and how it impacted me. I will be delighted to look on for you this year and see how your cultivation materializes. I know it will be amazing.
Hi Tamar, I am happy to have discovered you doing this. Wonderful, I didn’t realise we shared a passion for photography when I lived around the corner from you. I like this post about allow and cultivate…….
Dan and I have moved, sharing a home with my new partner and his two boys who are half Armenian……I’d love to chat…
Warmly,
Belinda