5 Things / Shining

My family has an annual New Year’s Eve night tradition with a paper lantern. Each of us writes on the lantern some things we want to release from the previous year. Then we walk out to the sidewalk, shivering as we struggle to light the lantern in the breeze, try to avoid trees, and send the lantern and its bad vibes out into the atmosphere. It feels good to have a ritual around letting go.