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<p>The final vlog of 2020, wishing you a warm and peaceful end of year. </p><p><br></p><p>Find the community calendar and <a href="https://yogawithadriene.com/december-2020-yoga-calendar-honor/" target="_blank">read more on our theme of HONOR here.</a></p><p><a href="https://fwfg.com/programs/light-trailer" target="_blank">Check it out and get pumped for LIGHT - A 7 Day Chakra Ride here.</a> </p><p><br></p><p>Stay tuned! Our January 30 Day Yoga Journey announcement and sign up is coming! I can’t wait. </p><p><br></p><p>Wherever this finds you and whatever you celebrate this season, we honor you and appreciate you. Thank you for being a FWFG member. You are my family, my brothers, my sisters, my teachers, my pals, my joy. </p><p><br></p><p>I will see you on the mat. </p><p><br></p><p>Yours, </p><p>Adriene</p><p><br></p><h3>Poem: At the End of the Year, by John O’Donohue</h3><p><em>The particular mind of the ocean</em></p><p><em>Filling the coastline’s longing</em></p><p><em>With such brief harvest</em></p><p><em>Of elegant, vanishing waves</em></p><p><em>Is like the mind of time</em></p><p><em>Opening us shapes of days.</em></p><p><em>As this year draws to its end,</em></p><p><em>We give thanks for the gifts it brought</em></p><p><em>And how they became inlaid within</em></p><p><em>Where neither time nor tide can touch them.</em></p><p><em>The days when the veil lifted</em></p><p><em>And the soul could see delight;</em></p><p><em>When a quiver caressed the heart</em></p><p><em>In the sheer exuberance of being here.</em></p><p><em>Surprises that came awake</em></p><p><em>In forgotten corners of old fields</em></p><p><em>Where expectation seemed to have quenched.</em></p><p><em>The slow, brooding times</em></p><p><em>When all was awkward</em></p><p><em>And the wave in the mind</em></p><p><em>Pierced every sore with salt.</em></p><p><em>The darkened days that stopped</em></p><p><em>The confidence of the dawn.</em></p><p><em>Days when beloved faces shone brighter</em></p><p><em>With light from beyond themselves;</em></p><p><em>And from the granite of some secret sorrow</em></p><p><em>A stream of buried tears loosened.</em></p><p><em>We bless this year for all we learned,</em></p><p><em>For all we loved and lost</em></p><p><em>And for the quiet way it brought us</em></p><p><em>Nearer to our invisible destination.</em></p>