<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newness on Late Blooms</title><link>/tags/newness/</link><description>Recent content in Newness on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/newness/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Poems for a New Year</title><link>/posts/poems-for-a-new-year/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/poems-for-a-new-year/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2015/Poems-for-a-new-year/i-DFkS5t4/0/MkKpxC5vz9vQM2Rbcq7TxVxs4DDjvq4bHQh8jNMJt/D/Canada-Blooms-2013-tulip-collage-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Canada Blooms 2013 tulip collage" loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Canada-Blooms-2013-tulip-collage-1024x590.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My Gratefulness Newsletter arrived in my inbox this morning and there were reminders there that the year is still new and full of promise - which I had all but forgotten.  It&amp;rsquo;s hard to believe that twenty-two days into the new year, I would have settled into old patterns and ways of thinking and being.  A poem by Anne Hillman called &amp;ldquo;We Look with Uncertainty&amp;rdquo; was shared in this newsletter prefaced by these words:  &lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;At the beginning of the year, we stand before new doorways, and the vastness of yet unexplored passages stretching out before us, no matter how old or young we are. Beckoning us are all the moments and opportunities of our future lives in ever-unknown measure, and the only response is a wholehearted “yes.” In this spirit, how grateful we are to Anne Hillman for sharing this tender and inspiring vision through her poem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>