You know what I love about New Year’s Eve? The fact that it’s the ultimate clean slate. The mother of fresh starts. I don’t do resolutions any more but on those last days of December I do think a lot about WHO I want to be (or continue to be) the following year. I think about how I want my life to feel and how I want to fill up my days. I think about how I can be of significance to my community, how I can be a force of good. So with that in mind, here are my New Year’s wishes for us all …

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Thanks for all your words of encouragement and support in 2015. Thanks for the debates, the discussions and the laughs. I wish for each of you everything I could possibly wish for myself in 2016: contentment, a sense of fulfilment, the feeling of being loved and muchos, muchos joy. Oh and a good book (or 20) to read!