New Year’s Day is a convenient, motivational, and essentially arbitrary starting point for a lot of changes we might make in our lives. January 1st has been the start of a “new year” since around 700 BCE, thanks to the Roman King Numa Pompilius.
But does it really feel like a new year emotionally - in the dead of winter, surrounded by dead plants, emp…
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