The last day of 2012: we're still here!

It is sunset on the Big Muddy, on December 31, 2012.  Time to get started on the new year resolutions!  It's mostly a re-do, or DittoDitto list:  quit smoking, start exercising, lose 10 pounds, teach better, learn to sew, make more dates with friends........ grow more tomatoes, can some beans, harvest  broccoli....... get another dog, take a train ride, clean the basement.............same old same old.  

Perhaps the whole idea of new year resolutions is that it is a new year. Toss out the sense of failure, do the hokey-pokey, and turn yourself into another year of learning.    I heard a great story on the radio, about the Mayan "end of the world" calendar   http://thestory.org/archive/20121211_The_Story The_End_of_The_World.mp3/view     and how the "end" was simply the end of the year -- though their year was a bit more than 365 moon-circling days.  It was not the END of the world, but the end of the old, the tattered, the worn, the sense of failure.  It was not really an ending type of end, but a beginning type of end:  turn around, do the hokey-pokey, and start over again, refreshed and renewed!

Hubby just came home from work, to an ethusiastic greeting from Bob, the dog:  the day starts over for the dog when we are again all together (he can't remember breakfast).  I could take a lesson from the dog: be ready, at all times, for a new day!!!

And the sun has sunk a little further.  The sunshine on my computer screen is dappled by the willow tree, outside, and the hibiscus bush, inside.  The day is ending.  The year is ending.   And there's so much to do....

So, until tomorrow!  

It's never ever too late!  Happy New Year!