{"id":17007,"date":"2015-01-07T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/en\/?p=17007"},"modified":"2015-01-07T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T10:12:22","slug":"bonne-annee-new-year-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/bonne-annee-new-year-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonne ann\u00e9e! Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeimages.com\/photo\/1251899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17017\" alt=\"trailstothesun-SergeySoldatov\" src=\"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/trailstothesun-SergeySoldatov-freeimages.png\" rel=\"PrettyPhoto[17007]\" width=\"700\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bonne ann\u00e9e! Happy New Year!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wishing you\u2013our readers, friends, community arts partners and members\u2013a joyful, creative, adventurous and wonderful new year!<\/p>\n<p>The New Year promises great things! <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over the holidays, don&rsquo;t we often step back from the endless to-do lists, commitments and pressures, to take time to let our minds and hearts process things\u2013and then envision the New Year as a place of great new possibilities? <\/span>All the things we can do, be, see, give and learn!<\/p>\n<p>Over the holidays, I put on a pair of new skis and went up to the top of a mountain in the Eastern Townships of Qu\u00e9bec. Dressed for minus 17 and standing in the wind atop the mountain, I gazed out at the expansive view then pointed my skis downward. Knees bent, body braced, all attention on the terrain immediately in front. Then quick negotiations around moguls and icy patches, and the sweet meditative rhythm of long stretches of just swooshing back and forth down the mountain. Stopping from time to time, checking on my family\u2013<em>are they coming? Are they okay? Or are they far ahead of me?<\/em> Feeling the presence of others zipping up beside me, crossing in front and hearing the scraping of blades just behind me. Listening, focusing and then paying attention just enough so that my mind could wander.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the desk in the ArtBridges\u2019 office. First day back. Waiting for staff to come in. Reminders on notes about the big and little things to get started on in January. Notes with heartfelt Seasons\u2019 Greetings and New Year\u2019s wishes. Re-engaging. Will just point my \u201cskis downward\u201d and let go and get into all that the New Year brings. Letting gravity pull me and move me gently or\u2013not so gently\u2013forward. \u2026Enough of the reflection!\u2026Hey everyone, Happy New Year!! We look forward to connecting and &lsquo;ArtBridging&rsquo;!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>-Seanna Connell, Project Director<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonne ann\u00e9e! Happy New Year!! Wishing you\u2013our readers, friends, community arts partners and members\u2013a joyful, creative, adventurous and wonderful new year! The New Year promises great things! Over the holidays, don&rsquo;t we often step back from the endless to-do lists, commitments and pressures, to take time to let our minds<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-more sd-all-trans\" href=\"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/bonne-annee-new-year-post\/#more-17007\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[92,89,98],"class_list":["post-17007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","tag-artbridges","tag-artbridgestoiledesarts","tag-toiledesarts"],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_last":["1"],"_last_editor_used_jetpack":["block-editor"],"_wpml_media_featured":["1"],"_wpml_media_duplicate":["0"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}