End of the Year

Posted on December 31, 2003 in Attitudes Festivals Reflections

Each year ends in darkness and begins in darkness. The light does not appear until nearly 7 hours after midnight, the hour at which I blow the old lead organ pipe and crane my neck around the deck to catch a glimpse of the fireworks that someone saved from the Fourth.

All in all, we get an equal mix of daylight and night over the course of the year.

How do I declare for 2003? Some dire events on the world scene, the loss of a favorite cat, a stupid war defended by people who can’t admit to a mistake, brushfires that came within seven blocks of my childhood home, a couple of egomaniacs in one of the writing groups, and a pulled tooth don’t add up to anything: I have a new perspective. Bad things happen and you keep living.

For the changes in my attitude that I have started to make, I call it a good year.