Monday, January 01, 2007
And So, It Begins....
...this new year of ours...this space of time, this vast, empty (yet full of possibility) stretch of days in which it is absolutely impossible to know what will occur...oh, we my think we know wht the dys will hold...we think we can predict, based on all the days that have gone before, the things that will happen....the things we hope will happen if all goes well...the work attended to...the people seen and experienced...the meals eaten and dogs walked...we think we know so much...but even the most foolish among us has to admit: we really don't know what even the next breath will bring. So, as ever, before us stretched a road certainly never taken before.
Until others wake up on this first day of the new year, I am sitting solitary in a wonderfully quiet house, sipping a cup of feshly brewed coffee (Trader Joe's does have the best coffee beans)...and I have been awake and watching the rainy morning for many hours now....
Former President Gerald Ford has passed away and lies in state in DC...Saddam Hussein was finally hanged and is lying somewhere in his country...and the world waits for its next big news. For now, it seems as though (but of course I have no way of really knowing) but it seems as though the world is resting peacefully balanced between the end and the beginnning...that special day of rest we all allow ourselves when approximately 365 days have passed and we gird our loins and take a deep breath to prepare to meet the next slew of days...sleep in heavenly peace,indeed: we take the day to regroup. And then we mount our war horses and off we go again into the battle....the battle we benignly view as our lives. We teach, we work, we dress ourselves in all the new clothing we received as presents, we greet each other with tales of our holidays (I will tell of my great Christmas bake-off!) and we will be glad for so much. At the very least, glad for one small preseent we may have received...one free meal....one smile or one shared conversation with a distant relative....our memories remain the true gift of the Holidays....
Until others wake up on this first day of the new year, I am sitting solitary in a wonderfully quiet house, sipping a cup of feshly brewed coffee (Trader Joe's does have the best coffee beans)...and I have been awake and watching the rainy morning for many hours now....
Former President Gerald Ford has passed away and lies in state in DC...Saddam Hussein was finally hanged and is lying somewhere in his country...and the world waits for its next big news. For now, it seems as though (but of course I have no way of really knowing) but it seems as though the world is resting peacefully balanced between the end and the beginnning...that special day of rest we all allow ourselves when approximately 365 days have passed and we gird our loins and take a deep breath to prepare to meet the next slew of days...sleep in heavenly peace,indeed: we take the day to regroup. And then we mount our war horses and off we go again into the battle....the battle we benignly view as our lives. We teach, we work, we dress ourselves in all the new clothing we received as presents, we greet each other with tales of our holidays (I will tell of my great Christmas bake-off!) and we will be glad for so much. At the very least, glad for one small preseent we may have received...one free meal....one smile or one shared conversation with a distant relative....our memories remain the true gift of the Holidays....
Labels: 2007's Early Days
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