New Year

I fell like the blog, me, and you readers have formed a relationship like that of a new couple, or a mother with her brand new baby. Every holiday, every milestone, or first is a momentous occasion and is to be captured, celebrated, and remembered. So, I'm sorry if you are getting tired of all my gushings about how far we have come. I'm not actually that sorry; just wait till Valentine's day and our first year anniversary.
So today's post is our first new year together. Our first meditation on beginnings, 'to be continueds' and endings. Everyone always forgets about the 'to be continueds'. Not everything stops and starts at the same time. It's not like tat plastic cup of Vernors (it's a Michigan thing) I was drinking at 11:59 just ended at 12. It is to be continued, and will be. So here is me raising my plastic cup of Vernors to all three transitions of time

 

   When I was 11 or 12 I was reading a Tiger Beat magazine or other trash of that ilk and a celebrity in it was quoted as saying that they had no New Year's resolution; they didn't want to mess up and forget about it. Slightly pessimistic, if I may say so. Planning a New Year around self doubt and expectations of the worst- that's the part where I make a scoffing sound. But all the same, I don't usually do New Year's resolutions. Not because of predictions of self failure but because a year is a really long time. My goals will change. My perspective will change I won't want the same things that I did. Not that I'm trash talking resolutions. What I"m trying to say is that New Years was a chosen thing. What if it had been chosen to be in August and our year revolved around the sticky heat of the eighth month? Beginnings, endings, to be continueds can happen at any time and it doesn't need a chorus of singers, or a glittering ball, or an new calendar to proceed it's act. Just do what you have to do when you have to do it. That's my advice to you this year.

Happy New Years readers.