it's here

Hooray!
It's here!
That January feeling.
And only two weeks late.
I thought I had missed it somehow when Newness was being passed 'round.
I've always loved January possibilities.
Loved to feel afresh an urgency to paint and sew, quilt and write, sketch and bake.
To rifle through fabric and pull unfinished quilt tops out into the January light;
Gifts to my new self.
To reread books that claim they were Christmas gifts in 1992 and find them just as comforting.
To squint at recipes folded between flour speckled pages as garlic and ginger waft from a soup pot.
Hooray!
I might have missed the starters gun on January the first but I'm making a dash for it the same as always.