January 2007 New Year, New You
We dubbed this issue reinvention. When we sat down what seems like eons ago to assign various themes to the months to come, “reinvention” seemed like a good idea for January. After all, this is the month when so many of us make resolutions that are usually intended to remake ourselves in some small way. What I hadn’t realized was that our magazine would also be in the throes of reinvention.
We are moving forward fast, newly minted, as ThriveNYC. I hadn’t foreseen that the relaunching of this magazine would mirror what so many of us have done in our lives, re invent, re launch, or just plain start over.
Reinvention means keeping the best of what we were as people or a publication and tossing out the rest. This issue ushers in the year 2007 (twenty OOH seven) We begin a multi-part series by Dave Gibbons about people who have flipped their career scripts to better reflect who they have become. A book agent is now a sheep farmer, a rock musician is a doctor and an accountant is an actor. This is the metaphor for our aspirations here at Thrive, becoming who we were truly meant to be.
We trust you all will find the shiny new you hiding inside whatever old persona used to show a face to the world. Take inspiration from others and attempt to be open to the wonders that lurk inside of you as you toil away at your desk, or mothering, typing, adding, dancing, or plowing whatever fields you till.
— Wickham Boyle
