{"id":76018,"date":"2021-01-04T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=76018"},"modified":"2021-01-07T20:04:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T01:04:32","slug":"new-views-of-a-new-year-antonio-gramsci-arundhati-roy-patti-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2021\/01\/04\/new-views-of-a-new-year-antonio-gramsci-arundhati-roy-patti-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"New Views of a New Year (Antonio Gramsci, Arundhati Roy, Patti Smith)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Something doesn’t ring true to us about the idea that with a simple change of year would come an erasure of the heavy mood and fearful times we’ve been living. We prefer THIS from a 1916 column titled “I Hate New Year’s Day” that intellectual Antonio Gramsci published in the Italian Socialist Party\u2019s official paper Avanti!<\/em> (full text here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eve<\/strong><\/em>ry morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year\u2019s day.<\/em><\/strong>.. I want every morning to be a new year\u2019s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself<\/strong>. No day set aside<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n THERE is a practice to aspire to: waking each morning feeling the sense of possibility and renewal that accompanies the first day of the year. Or even just doing it once in a while: starting fresh any time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s why I hate these New Year\u2019s that fall like fixed maturities, which turn life and human spirit into a commercial concern with its neat final balance, its outstanding amounts, its budget for the new management. They make us lose the continuity of life and spirit.<\/em>
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