109. The Buddhist Approach to New Year's Resolutions.

Cheerful New Year! I send love and luck and healing and kindness and caring to you all, pass it on! May we all be genuinely happy, content, and full of benefit for others.⁠ For those of us who survived 2022 mostly intact, may we rest in gratitude—and share any kindnesses we have received, in this life, with others who have been made more vulnerable, this year. Support local, please. Boycott Amazon, please. Climate Change is here, and gathering power—please engage in micro and macro actions to reverse it, like protecting mature trees, going vegan, going zero-waste, offsetting your travel, and when you travel, supporting local. May this year help heal us, and bring us together, even as our very real differences continue to wake us up to important questions: can we continue to progress toward equality, and equity? Can we promote truth, not lies? Can we find respect for science, not “youtube research” and conspiracy theories? Can we feel our defeat, our cynicism, dig deep, and be the ones we have been waiting for? The answer is simple: we must. Thank you for reading and listening to Elephant, this year.