'Only connect ...' - a resolution for 2025

If you’ve followed me for a fair amount of time, you’ll know - I’m a New Year’s resolutions kind of gal. Every year, I attempt to master certain skills, improve knowledge, achieve specific goals in relation to my writing, my reading, my activity and hobbies. Most years, I succeed. 

This coming year, I have just one resolution which I’ve borrowed from E.M. Forster - ‘Only connect’ which fits beautifully with my current mindset. The epigraph is a quote from his novel of 1910, ‘Howards End’ in which its main character Margaret Wilcox ponders whether humans can truly align and ‘connect’ their inner world ‘passion’ with their outer world ‘prose’. Forster’s belief was ‘Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest’ – which covers all aspects of life, me thinks.
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Forster’s other quote of ‘Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine’ – hasn’t gone amiss in my life, so fingers crossed for 2025!

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