Looking Ahead To A New Year

It has likely happened to you as it has to millions of others after Christmas. 

As you begin catching up on everything that was put on hold before the holidays you can’t help looking ahead to a New Year — a good time to end some bad habits and begin doing whatever needs to be done to make your life better. So you confidently make a list of New Year’s resolutions and sincerely promise yourself that come New Year’s Day, you are going to begin making more of a difference.

That day soon arrives, but because it falls on a … Read the rest “Looking Ahead To A New Year”

The Immediacy Of Everything

From minute to minute, day to day, and year to year, everything in the world is changing. What is alive is dying. What is new becomes older. What is already old will eventually disappear or change into a form alien to the original.

We react with a mix of shock and sadness as we become painfully aware that everyone and everything everywhere are no longer what they were, nor will they ever be again.

Everything on earth is slip-sliding its way down a seemingly endless one-way street to be replaced by the same or something different.

We become depressed as … Read the rest “The Immediacy Of Everything”