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OK, so this seems to be all the trend lately to scribe your views on-line, so I may as well queue up and join the crowd. It's New Year's Day and like everyone else on the planet, I find myself trying to make these ubitquitous "New Year's Resolutions", which I have regarded to be mostly bunk, because most of us fail to ever really keep them, myself included. We always tend to fill them with totally unrealistically achievable goals and by mid-March, most of us are mired in depression over our failed goals and aspirations as spring approaches and we realize just what we've done in overreaching for our resolutions.

Well, this year, I suppose I ought to start out by just trying to create more realistically achievable goals. I want to stay both mentally and physically healthy this year. That's doable. I want to try to banish negative thoughts when they begin their insidious encroachment at times when I am more prone to them. I want to focus more on what I can do as opposed to what I can't do, and more on what I have than what I don't have. It's easy to get depressed and to think about all that negative stuff when this time of year is upon us. The holidays are winding down, the cold and snowy days are here, the nights are long, the sun is noticeably absent from the sky and warm days seem an eternity away as frigid day after frigid day goes by.

But winter will pass, as it does every year, and spring will return, and with it, new life, new hopes and the promise of warm days ahead. And by this time next year, we will be heading down the path of a presidential inauguration and with high hopes, a better future for us all. We can put this long nightmare of the Bush years behind us and hope for a mending of our world and our country. By the time that administration is done with its first term, I will be nearing retirement and the beginning of a new way of life, hopefully one much happier and more fulfilling than the one I have now. I can only hope that whoever is elected our next President will be able to move us forward in a positive and productive way so that we don't have to daily pick up our newspapers or click on our radios and computers to more bad news about those in Washington who supposedly work for us, the people. But that's another post for another time.

Happy New Year, 2008.