Something a little different: an on-the-go mindfulness exercise for the on-the-go mindful person. Take a break, and connect with the world waiting in your mind’s eye.

The final hour of the year is also the quietest.

Outside, the cold darkness of the night consumes all sound. Everyone is huddled indoors by now, gathered in the brightest corners of their homes and surrounded by light, sound, color.

Unfortunately, I can’t see them from here.

All I see is the color purple.

Purple walls, surrounding me in a maze I have yet to explore. Purple sprigs of lavender, swaying softly in the breeze. Purple skies, with clouds floating like cotton candy. Even the air tastes sweet.

I don’t know where I am, or how I got here.

They grew older, and their drum struck softer; the pillar of fire burned thinner. The end of their legacy was soon approaching.

And so, they came up with a solution. A way to immortalize their circle, and pass it down for generations to come.

She observed the foam around her—gathered together into a shapeless Pangaea with no rhyme nor reason—and searched for a semblance of meaning within, the way we do when we look at the clouds above. But she could find none, and thus she did what we can only dream, for the clouds are out of hands’ reach: she resolved to make some shapes of her own.

You who call our kingdom home,

You who long the earth have roamed,

Now is the time to return to foam.

Take down your sails and don your scales,

Dive deep beneath the land of whales,

In the next ocean’s blue,

Start anew.

It felt like I had entered another world. Everything that stood outside the comfort of my home was completely blanketed in white, enveloped in a relentless blizzard that dazzled my eyes and stung my ears. I pulled down the hat on my head and crossed my arms, saving up my strength for the road ahead.

The digital clock marks 00:01; yet, on this particular evening, midnight will repeat again and again, for hours on end, as the world comes together for one day to step into the promises of the New Year.