The coming of the new year reminds us, again, that we live, as we always have, somewhere on a sliding scale between utopia and dystopia and that we continuously carry our burdens and opportunities with us. 2011 is merely a new entry in our ancient custom of chronological bookkeeping, an arbitrary starting point for our annual trip around the sun.
But it is also so much more. Who can live without fresh intentions, new purposes? Who does not welcome a chance to start over, if only on a new page of the calendar? Life goes on, but it goes on so much better with hope and renewal and recommitment.
Last night was a night for banishing regrets. Today is for wondering how to live without new ones, how to do right by ourselves and one another.
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Another Year... New Hopes and Wishes !!
a passage from NY Times
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