24/01/2026
ONE WORD INTENTION AS CO-CREATION. for the past seven years I've been devoting to a one word intention for the year ahead. this partly came out of feeling frustrated and too heady with the usual goal-oriented resolutions, but also because as I get older I've just come to see that I really don't know what life has in store for me, and I'd like to honour the fact that life is really a co-conspirator for how my year unfolds ✨️
it has been such a special ritual for me each year, and often a lovely surprise at the close of a year to see how the one word intention came to take form in ways I couldn't have named. so I'm sharing here a sort-of process if you will, should you feel called to do something similar:
- I start by listening, listening for the words that catch my ears in conversation, in books or films in the liminal time between winter solstice and the lunar new year. I let the listening take time.
- once the word arrives, I take a breath and hold the word in my heart and sit down with a pile of magazine scraps - all images, no words - to see what images I'm drawn to. they don't need to make logical sense, but that somehow moves me inside: a flutter, an ache, a stirring.
- the intention collage sits in my room, somewhere I can see it over the course of the year and at times I sit with it (most times it watches me as I watch it from the corner of my eye!) and at the close of the year as I reflect on the months gone by, I marvel at all the ways the word came to be in my life ♥️
so curious to hear your one-word intentions if you feel to share them x
