Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. -Maya Angelou
Out with 2017. In with 2018.
Not much will change when the clock moves to straight-up midnight and the first day of the New Year begins.
Well, except that I will have to try to remember to write 2018 instead of 2017. Most likely, I will mess up a few checks before I get that settled.
The evils of war, and homelessness, and violence, and bigotry, and slavery, and greed, and poverty, and other crud will continue.
The current Presidential Administration will still be...well, they will still be the current Presidential Administration.
On the other hand the pursuit of peace, the struggle for freedom and the gifts of family, and brother/sister-hood, and generosity, and other joys will continue.
Maybe the best we can hope for is, as Carlos Castaneda said, "to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive."
It could be made easier, I suppose,
if we were to do some simple things like relax a bit more;
be a little kinder;
be a tad more thankful;
get out of our comfort zone more often;
take more deep breaths...count to ten;
learn when to give, and when not to give a damn.
Maybe in 2018 we will pursue the Truth, the Whole Truth
The Truth that will set us free…
Free from all the lies and half-truths that held us back
and held us captive in 2017.
Maybe in 2018 we will know better...and then we can do better.
Well, 2018 is here...so each day just get up, show up, and give it all you've got, and struggle with the balancing act once more.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man (or woman). -Ben Franklin
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. -Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love. -R.E. Goodrich
New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. -Mark Twain
And this...
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. -Bill Vaughn
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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