New Year’s Eve–2011 To 2012

Another year ends, and everything is older, even things that are brand new.  One good thing about 2012 is that “twelve” is easier to say than “eleven.” Talk – at least what’s in English – is going to be easier, and that won’t happen again for seven years.  And, the complexities of saying something like “nineteen ninety-seven” fall more dimly to those who have (or have had) reason to use the words. Although yours truly spent sixty-three years in those nineteen hundred years they seem as old as the previous century now. Ten year old children have no nineteen hundred numbers.  

New Year’s Eve should be a time to make plans for New Year’s Day. The saying once learned is that whatever one does on New Year’s Day one will do throughout the year ahead.  While there obviously will be variations in that – unexpected things enter lives all of the time that change how things go, sometimes completely radically – surely the best way to start a year is to keep in mind the most important things. That’s before the likes of “New Year’s Resolutions,” which really should be small things that might turn into good habits.  Small things can be worked into someone’s previous routine. 

So, while there may be good reason to celebrate come any New Year’s Eve, there can also be much reason to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep insofar as possible to get a good start on the coming year. At least it can start out right even if a radical change does come along almost immediately. One “right start” might be to at least think of the natural world in which everything exists.  Another might be to try to smile at least once. There is bound to be something good at hand if one looks around enough.  It’s also a time to give the dog an extra petting and be sure the plants don’t need water.

In reality there is only now.   

Happy Holidays!

 

There’s a reason it’s not quite a Nativity scene.

There wasn’t one to present.