A new year

The new year is in full swing – pressing its way through January – leaving the past year in a cloud of dusty memories.

It’s amazing how quickly time marches on, isn’t it?  How each year we begin with the thought of starting anew….of getting refreshed…of pushing the “start” button. 

We’ve created, through our calendars and measurement of time, an invisible renewal on January 1.  A manufactured blissful absolution of our problems and issues.  An escape from the old…a skip towards the new.

How cool is that?  We need it.  We need the feeling, the notion, that we can start over.  That we can begin again.  That the past is over.  Just like the seasons which come and go, so to do our obstacles to happiness and fulfillment.

Although the ending of a year does produce a swipe of melancholy, it also swings in hope.  Hope that this year will be better, that we can learn more, fear less.  That our dreams are lined up, just waiting for us to find them.

New year, new you. – BB