9 Things to Write Down Before New Year’s

Amy Shearn captures some unexpected ways to hold on to what was good about this year.

1 That One Really Great Day So many days are so not ideal in so many ways. But remember that one really stellar day this year? Perhaps it had elements that can be replicated. Like, who knew that one of your all-time favorite things was actually as simple as carrying a bunch of helium balloons down the street? What a discovery! Or perhaps it was totally oneof-a-kind—the pure magic of running into a long-lost friend! On a ferry! At golden hour! It’s so rare that a moment feels perfect, and that’s exactly what makes it worth recording—not the phone-camera-snapshot version of recording but the writing-out-exactly-how-it-felt version. 2 The Mistake You Never Want to Make You’re having lunch with a former colleague when she sighs and says, “I took this new job because I…

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