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NEW YEAR’S ADDRESS

It’s time to say goodbye to 2021, an extraordinary year in many ways, not just for me but for us all.

December 2021

I am not going to mention our common challenge by name!
You probably faced your own unique challenges, wholly or partially unrelated to the above.

Personally, I had a good year, for the most. I am healthy, have a nice home and live in a warm and inspiring relationship, my children are largely thriving and developing, as are my grandchildren.
Largely, because that is the nature of life, and the lesson this year has been one of endurance and patience as well as a reminder that even if things do not work as expected, they have a way of working out all the same.

I have been training my patience and endurance over the past year. I have been practicing yoga for many years, with varying intensity. Mostly as a way of staying physically fit, although of course, I knew that body and mind are connected. This year, the blessings of yoga have really stood the test, and I have intensified my training. At times in a lovely yoga studio in Frederiksberg (if you would like to know where, I warmly recommend Dalgas Yoga. Thank you, Lukas and CO, for being there!) and at times based on streaming online lessons or online yoga from a different provider.
All year round, five to six mornings a week, and it has made a difference. Not only is my body more limber than when the year began, so is my mind.

As usual, I have had a busy working life. I like it that way.

I enjoy all the interesting encounters my work brings and the focused immersion it also requires. Very conveniently, I spent the month of December on my laptop in front of the fireplace and have now finished the text for HÅNDVÆRK bookazine no. 6, which will be released in March 2022.

In addition to the 300,000 characters or so and approximately 500 photos I produced for this year’s two issues of the bookazine and my online platform HÅNDVÆRK, I also worked with a small number of clients, providing professional feedback and support to some, working as a copywriter for others and, finally, taking photographs for a few.

Some of the photos are included with this New Year’s greeting.

May the coming year, yours as well as mine, be filled with joy and challenges in a balanced mix.
Thank you for reading along

All the best, Rigetta

Photos made for:

DROSTFONDEN / OPERA HEDELAND
HANNE DALSGAARD DESIGN
ARUPHVIDT
GOURMANDIET
LINA CHRISTENSEN

Farvel 2021, et på mange måder udsædvanligt år, ikke bare for mig men for os alle.

Jeg vil ikke her nævne vores fælles udforing ved navn!
Du har sikkert også haft dine egne udfordringer, helt eller delvist uafhængig af ovenstående.

Selv har jeg har haft det godt, langt størstedelen året, jeg er sund og rask, bor dejligt, og er i en både inspirerende og tryg parrelation, børnene trives i det store hele og er i udvikling, det samme gør sig gældende for børnebørnene.
I det store hele, for sådan er livet Læren i år har været læren om udholdenhed og tålmodighed, og læren om, at selvom det ikke går som man havde forestillet sig, så går det alligevel.

Jeg har trænet min tålmodighed og udholdenhed i det forgangne år. I mange år har jeg dyrket yoga, nogle år mere end andre. Mest for at holde mig i fysisk form. Nuvel, jeg har godt vidst at det fysiske indvirker på det mentale, men i år har yogaens velsignelser stået sin prøve, og jeg har intensiveret min træning. Nogle perioder i et dejligt yogastudie på Frederiksberg (hvis du vil vide hvor, så kan jeg varmt anbefale Dalgas Yoga. Tak Lukas og CO, for at være der) i andre perioder ved hjælp af streamede lektioner eller online yoga fra en anden udbyder.
Hele året, fem-seks morgener om ugen, det har gjort en forskel. Ikke bare er min krop mere smidig end ved årets begyndelse, det er mit sind også.

Mit arbejdsliv har som sædvanligt været travlt. Jeg kan lide det sådan.

Jeg nyder, både alle de møder mit arbejde giver mig, og den fordybelse det også kræver. December måned, har jeg meget belejligende tilbragt ved min computer foran pejsen. Jeg har sat sidst punktum i teksten til HÅNDVÆRK bookazine no. 6 som udkommer marts 2022.

Foruden de 300.000 tegn + det løse og i omegnen af 500 billeder, jeg i år har produceret til to numre af HÅNDVÆRK bookazine og onlineplatformen HÅNDVÆRK, har jeg også haft et mindre antal kunder ved siden af.

Nogle af dem har jeg givet sparring, andre har jeg hjulpet med tekst, og endelig har jeg taget billeder for nogle få.

Nogle af de billeder får du her som illustration af min nytårshilsen.

Må dit og mit næste år blive fyldt med glæde og udfordringer i en skønsom blanding.
Tak fordi du læser med

Kærlig hilsen, Rigetta

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