2013 one little word : soar.
My 2012 One Little Word came to me while stopped at a red light. I thought that my 2013 One Little Word was delivered to me in the form of a beautiful journal, gifted to me by a beautiful friend. The journal – Courage Every Day – features lovely blank pages, and quotes about courage on every page. Courage, it seemed, was destined to be my word. And then the universe started to whisper…
Soar.
I was tentative about it, and the first couple of friends that I told didn't like it. Always being one to thoroughly research my options, I looked up the definitions of both words.
Courage – the quality of spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, or pain w/o fear.
Soar – to rise or aspire to a higher or more exalted level.
And that basically settled it. I felt that choosing courage would say to the universe that I was expecting difficulty, danger, and pain. On the other hand – aspiring to a higher level? Sign me up! The final deciding factor was when I discovered that I had a series of photos from Costa Rica of a bird soaring through the sky (ie, the banner above). Sometimes the universe says "like, DUH."
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. - Friedrich Nietzsche
7 Comments
Mira Goddard
Love this. 🙂 thanks for the beautiful shout out!!!!
Barb
Those definitions definitely seal the deal.
SOAR it is.
Kristi
Love, love love your word! I am still noodling on my word, but it might be “accept”. Still thinking on it though….
iowajewel
oh i love it and who would tell you they didn’t like your word? it is your word if you like it and it speaks to you that is all that matters! my word is magic and i don’t care if the whole, wide world doesn’t like it- it is MINE!
Steph
Ha! Courage chose me in 2011. It was without a doubt the hardest year of my life. I think soar is a perfect word.
cinback
This is a beautiful word…
Linda Marie
Exactly! I love how our words find us, or so we think, until we realize the obvious is right in front of us.
I also thought I had my word ‘support’. It was to encompass everything I was facing. Until I lived with it a couple weeks and it became very heavy + draining.
Then I completed OLW December’s prompt and looked back at my album and it was right there in each month – CHANGE – adjust, modify, movement, growth, transition. SOOOOOO is my word this year.
Will look forward to following your blog again this year. Happy New Year 2013!