Pipi’s Pasture: A positive resolution for 2025
Pipi's Pasture
It’s nearly 2025, and I opened up a brand new tablet to write this column. I’ve been thinking about what the new year might bring. Traditionally, many of us make resolutions for the new year, such as going on a diet or paying bills or lots of other stuff that we should be doing anyway.
Guess what? We don’t follow through. It’s just tradition.
However, I’ve been thinking about one thing I’d really like to work on for myself, and that’s taking notice of all of the positives around me. In spite of all of the negative things going on in today’s world, there are positives, if we pay attention. I know the effect of positivity on the human body. I even know the biological reasons why. In the end, it makes us feel good.
Actually, there are probably plenty of positive things going on in our daily lives if we just pay attention and take the time to really, really take the benefit of the good feelings that can come from them.
Producers of the television news networks realize this. Notice that, with all of the negativity they have to report each day, they also provide segments about the good things going on in society — such as people being kind to one another or citizens achieving remarkable goals.
So I have been exploring my daily life, and that brings me to watching the animals that share Pipi’s Pasture with me in the winter — mostly the deer and neighborhood cats. I put out food for the cats because, in exchange, they keep the mice out of the house and vehicles.
Some readers might remember how I have grumbled about the deer coming up on the porch to eat the cat food, resulting in a rather expensive grocery bill. Some of you even wrote to me with suggestions as to how I might deter the deer.
The past two winters have been quiet where the deer have been concerned, but this winter five deer, two bucks and three does, have taken up residence around the house and they found the cat food. It’s had me scrambling to keep the cat pans filled — negativity, indeed. But then the other afternoon I saw something that warmed my heart. I opened the door and spooked a doe that jumped — almost fell down the front steps, but not before I noticed what she was doing.
There, eating out of the same pan, was a little fuzzy yellow kitten — from a summer litter — that wasn’t spooked and just kept eating. The sight warmed my heart and probably did it some good, too. How remarkable that something so large in size and something so small might share a meal. I took the time to savor the sight.
There are so many other wonderful happenings in my life. I vow, in 2025, to spend more energy on the positives and less on the negatives.
I know; it’s hard.
Happy New Year!

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