Another New Year

Despite what I wrote in my last entry, I got a lot of great stuff from friends and family for Christmas. It seems we all went all out this year... we even had a turkey dinner, something we haven't done in years. But now it's another new year, time to undeck the halls and make resolutions we shall break by January 5th. Just Joking. But seriously now, we don't have to worry about another holiday for almost a month and a half, Valentine's Day. Of course there is Martin Luther King Day before that and while he was a great man who did great things before he met his tragic and senseless end, I don't really know anyone personally who "celebrates" that day. Usually it just ends up being a long weekend like President's Day.

When you're 5 years old, it seems like Christmas will never come. When you're 33, it seems like Christmas just came afew months ago and when you're 80 (from what I hear) the year seems to blink by. I heard a very scientific reason for this perception of the passage of time I would like to pass along. When you're 5, a year is one fifth of your life. When you're 33, it's one thirty third of your life and when you're 80, well, I'm sure you get the idea by now, it's one eightieth of your life. It makes sense to me and I always reflect on it at the beginning of a new year.

Time continues to move forward, which can be taken as good or bad news. When I was a kid in the 1970's, the idea of being part of the graduating class of 1991 seemed like light years away. Children born this year will likely graduate with the class of 2024. Just trying to imagine the world which they will graduate into makes me think of it as a Si-Fi movie since it sounds so unreal. Which brings me back, the long way 'round, to the place we all belong... in the now. We are all just humans being, after all.

The past is the past, the future is the future, but the now is a gift...

that's why they call it "the present".

Happy New Year