The start of a New Year has always been celebrated, even in ancient times. People look to the new year with anticipation and promise; a new chance! Let’s make this year the best ever!!!
Some of us look forward with trepidation. Is this year the year we lose our parents? We are also getting older so will my body hold up? Will my brain serve me well?
We celebrate at a hall with family and friends, dance, drink, eat and wish everyone the best possible New Year at the stroke of midnight; everyone is happy but also drunk.
The next day serious thoughts and plans start entering your brain; you can’t keep them out.
During the New Year Celebration the number of dead American soldiers in Iraq crept over 3,000. President Bush has promised a new Iraq strategy but experts say it will be the same ole’ “stay the course” nightmare and more and more American soldiers will die. Bush has two more years left; can the Democrats do something to stop the madness?
President Ford died while we celebrated the holidays. He was called a good and decent man that was needed after Watergate and Vietnam to unify us and bind up the nation’s wounds. We need such a man right now. Watergate was bullshit compared to what is happening now! Is there such a man or woman waiting in the wings to step forward?
Listening to all the eulogies at President Ford’s funeral I was mad at myself for not knowing how much Ford actually did for the nation. Saturday Night Live made fun of him and the perception of a klutz stuck with many including me. He did make that very stupid statement during his debate with Carter about Eastern Europe being NOT under Communist influence; it hurt him.
His pardon of President Nixon was justified and timely. The nation did not want this to drag out. Watergate became a media game and was never a serious, evil crime anyway.
We need to be optimistic. We have to be optimistic for the alternative is unacceptable. Personally, I CAN control myself and my surroundings. We can also influence or at least try to influence what goes on in our city and our country and in so doing, help influence what goes on in the world.
We have to believe that each of us can make a difference, even if miniscule.
Yup, I’ll perk up and face the New Year with joy and optimism; after all, my favorite quote is from Dylan Thomas:
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.
Some of us look forward with trepidation. Is this year the year we lose our parents? We are also getting older so will my body hold up? Will my brain serve me well?
We celebrate at a hall with family and friends, dance, drink, eat and wish everyone the best possible New Year at the stroke of midnight; everyone is happy but also drunk.
The next day serious thoughts and plans start entering your brain; you can’t keep them out.
During the New Year Celebration the number of dead American soldiers in Iraq crept over 3,000. President Bush has promised a new Iraq strategy but experts say it will be the same ole’ “stay the course” nightmare and more and more American soldiers will die. Bush has two more years left; can the Democrats do something to stop the madness?
President Ford died while we celebrated the holidays. He was called a good and decent man that was needed after Watergate and Vietnam to unify us and bind up the nation’s wounds. We need such a man right now. Watergate was bullshit compared to what is happening now! Is there such a man or woman waiting in the wings to step forward?
Listening to all the eulogies at President Ford’s funeral I was mad at myself for not knowing how much Ford actually did for the nation. Saturday Night Live made fun of him and the perception of a klutz stuck with many including me. He did make that very stupid statement during his debate with Carter about Eastern Europe being NOT under Communist influence; it hurt him.
His pardon of President Nixon was justified and timely. The nation did not want this to drag out. Watergate became a media game and was never a serious, evil crime anyway.
We need to be optimistic. We have to be optimistic for the alternative is unacceptable. Personally, I CAN control myself and my surroundings. We can also influence or at least try to influence what goes on in our city and our country and in so doing, help influence what goes on in the world.
We have to believe that each of us can make a difference, even if miniscule.
Yup, I’ll perk up and face the New Year with joy and optimism; after all, my favorite quote is from Dylan Thomas:
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.
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