Happy New Year & Word of the Year 2023

The year 2022 is closing out and the new year is being ushered in. I want to wish you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year! I've been thinking about a new theme word for 2023. My thoughts have been mulling around new beginnings. Fancy words like commencement and recrudescence were considered but didn't quite do it for me. (Commencement means both “the ceremony of conferring degrees or granting diplomas at the end of the academic year” and also “an act or instance of commencing ; beginning,” reflecting an earlier use of the word. It comes from the Latin cominitiāre (“to begin”). Recrudescence means “breaking out afresh or into renewed activity.” As the Latin root suggests, this word was first used in medical contexts to describe a recurrence of symptoms after a period of remission , but it later took on a more rosy sense referring to the revival of something good.) I'm still dealing with activities from years past including 2022. So new beginnings doesn