Photo taken on Echo Road this last OctoberI have experienced so many New Years that I don't know what to say anymore. You heard right, the word machine has run out of words. Any comment I would make would be 'cliche'. There are no more original ideas to be expressed about the New Year, be they regarding health, wealth, or fresh starts. Resolutions are useless at this time of Year, so I will not even comment on that grand illusion, that the turning of a page on a calendar can usher a new era into your life. Jan 1 will be much like Dec 31, perhaps different only by the amount of daylight. An added digit to the markings on a calendar cannot change anything either, except for the likely chance of writing your first few cheques of the year with a 'stale date'. As for a new decade, what difference does that make? Those that care cannot even agree if the new decade begins in 2010 or 2011! If you count the years by ones or tens, the sun will still come up in the east and set in the west and you will still have to brush your teeth in the morning. The date changes nothing.
Nothing.
But.
Any time at all, between today and next Jan 1, 2011, you and I can change. We can set new goals, work to achieve old ones, resolve a conflict in our life, renew an old friendship, restore a tired relationship, lose some weight, change occupations, retire, say"I love you", confess a wrong doing, read a good book, stop watching so much TV, stop yelling at the kids, visit an aging parent, take a holiday, pay off a debt, watch a sunrise, plant a tree, go to the gym, give a chunk of money away, get to now a neighbour, learn some new words, sing, or go golfing on a work day. You see, the possibilities are limitless and it does not matter when you do it, just do it.
I told you I had nothing to say.
Nothing.
But.
Any time at all, between today and next Jan 1, 2011, you and I can change. We can set new goals, work to achieve old ones, resolve a conflict in our life, renew an old friendship, restore a tired relationship, lose some weight, change occupations, retire, say"I love you", confess a wrong doing, read a good book, stop watching so much TV, stop yelling at the kids, visit an aging parent, take a holiday, pay off a debt, watch a sunrise, plant a tree, go to the gym, give a chunk of money away, get to now a neighbour, learn some new words, sing, or go golfing on a work day. You see, the possibilities are limitless and it does not matter when you do it, just do it.
I told you I had nothing to say.
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