01/01/2026
Happy New Year! 💚
We are grateful for another year of doing the work we love with the most amazing, inspiring children and their families, our dedicated team, our wonderful partnerships and everyone who so kindly supports us and believes in the work we do! Thank you! Wishing for more of the same in 2026! ✨💚
When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m not for a moment,
expecting this to occur,
for that is not possible,
a year must be all things.
Happiness must come and go,
like the tides and the winds,
just as sadness,
and all the emotions in between.
When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you,
a baseline of peace,
of gratitude.
Because if you can sit with these things,
for the most part,
happiness will thrive,
when it does arrive,
and sadness will know its place in the mix.
If you can nourish these things,
daily,
you will also grow hope,
for it flourishes in such soil.
And hope is the key,
to this enigmatic state
of ‘happiness’ we seek.
When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you more happy days,
than sad days,
more joy than misery,
more laughter than tears…
and the wisdom to accept,
that they all belong.
Happy new year, my friends.
Happy new year.
Donna Ashworth
From ‘to the women’ 📕❤️
#2026
