It's A-Coming...

You can almost see it - and if you look on the displays of the local groceries, you can touch it, too!  Party hats, bottles of wine and champagne, and even those fake little plastic champagne glasses to toast the new year with.  I haven't quite decided if folks aren't celebrating because they're so relieved the old year is gone, or if they're heralding in a metaphorical new beginning.

2006 was good to me, and I rather hate to see it go, but let it go I must, just as you have to release all things that have run their course.

Have you made your resolutions?  Have you made sure the windows and doors are as they should be so that the old year can go out and the new can enter?  Got your collards, black eye peas and hog jowls ready to cook? Do you have your laundry done? (it's bad luck to do laundry on new year's day), and have you thought about where you'll be at midnight? - because I hear that whatever you're doing at midnight is what you can expect to be doing the rest of the year.

That could be true. At midnight, I'm usually sleeping or at the computer - and sure enough, that's what I do alllll yeaaaar loooooooooooooong - one or the other, without fail.

I have no resolutions.   I plan to let 2007 take me where it will, and I'm hoping it's a good driver because I'd like to get there as safely as possible.  And really, I'm not preparing for a new start...I'm just tying up loose ends.  There are things I will walk away from - not out of resolve, but because I cannot live with them the way they are for one more year.  Not even one more day.  But even in walking away, I know there will be something new and maybe even exciting...isn't there always?

And come midnight, I have to find something else to do besides sleep or stand by the screen lest someone says hi and I might miss it..heh. 

Everybody...Have a Happy.  Have a Safe.  And whatever wishes, longings, dreams you have for the coming 365 days with a new number attached, may you have them all.