Ending of Another Year.

Christmas is past…still a few family get togethers, but basically past. Gift wrap is in the trash…pick up will be one day off due to CHRISTMAS! Decorations are still up…com’on don’t pull the lights and such down just yet. I could forget and leave them up. Turns out one swag of artificial greenery got left up in the dining room this past year. I didn’t notice it until about September. Obviously we use that room a lot, huh? Well at that point I just left it up…I mean it was closer to going up again than the take down date.

New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, but nothing special for us. I’m not big into partying and it is probably safer to be home that night.

Making resolutions? Nah, either I will change, when I’ll change, or I won’t. I think I made better and more lasting resolutions at the beginning of school years than I ever did on January 1st.

Boy, I’m sounding more and more like a ‘scrooge’, “Bah, humbug.”

Still, I hope the new year brings good things for everyone, individually and mankind as a whole. Not everyone is going to have the ‘good’ in the new year. The bad comes with the good, but one can hope that people will be a little kinder, smarter, far thinking.

Almost sounds like a Garrison Keillor end to Lake Wobegon, “Where the men are good looking, the women strong and the children above average.”

Still, hoping your New Year will be more good than bad, more loving than hate filled, and you accomplish at least some of what you set out to do.

Love.