Here's to a Spectacular New Year

Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a wonderful year ahead.

Dolomites photo by KevinKunstadt.

Happy New Year!

I'm hoping 2011 unfolds as a wonderful year. It doesn't need to be blockbuster, over the top, out of this world...just good. Good will do. Good to my family, good to my friends.

I'm hoping most of all, that it is a gentler year. Too many people I know, and I'm sure many more I don't, got a bit roughed up and bruised by 2010. Hopefully 2011 will give us all a chance to catch our breaths, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

I'm looking forward to a year with fewer troubles for everyone and time to focus on the things we value, surrounded by those we love. And of course, I wish everyone a good dose of fun and laughter.

Welcome 2011! And Happy New Year!

Under a Blue Moon

My daughter will be just over twenty the next time a Blue Moon falls on New Years Eve. That is hard to imagine as I look at my two year old sitting on the floor surrounded by a jumble of toys. It seems such a long way off, but a decade is ending and the last ten years seemed to have flown by.

Aa I write this, a commercial for the Winter Olympics startles me, has it really been four years? I vaguely remember watching the ice skating while sitting on the futon in my old apartment. Lots of falls, if I recall correctly. How different my life was four years ago. I would need to do some excavating to unearth the details but most importantly, I was not yet a mom.

When I think of not being a mom, it seems a lifetime ago. When I think of being pregnant that seems like only yesterday. As I look at my two year old, time seems to have stretched and speed up at the same time. Time is such a strange thing. To me it seems slippery, inconsistent. and mysterious. Is time a thing or just a concept? Is it real or imagined?

Well, it is real in our world view. The 2010 calendars are already printed and waiting to be filled in. What will our new year bring? I hope good things for my daughter, my family, my friends and a little selfishly for myself. I hope it will also be a good year for those outside my small circle. As one of my friends insisted on Facebook today "Let's make it a good New Year!" I liked that. We may have no control over time, but we can make the most of it and make it good. I'm ready to make a wonderful new year.