Happy New Year 2024

Happy New Year 2024

Happy New Year everyone! For those who’ve been following this blog long enough you know that on New Years I go out to the most eastern point of NY State so I can catch the first light of the Sun on the first of the year.

You can see the picture of that on my website attached to this post if you’re interested.

It is an experience that I find truly rewarding, it fills me with a sense of renewal and hope for the coming year and I can feel as though the ills of the previous year are burned away by the rays of the Sun.

While I was there, however, I noticed several birds just fluttering about, looking for fish and being birds. To them it was just a Monday. In fact I imagine for the birds it was just “a day”.

There are, perhaps, two ways to look at such a thing. That we in our hubris have made a great event over a truly mundane thing and we should take no special joy in the turning of the calendar.

OR.

That any moment, any day can be a day of great change and beauty if we choose to make the day such a thing.

I choose the later. New Years may be my day, but it may not be yours. Yours may be Valentines day, your birthday, Halloween. However it can also be Tuesday. Those birds do not wait until some predetermined moment to live their life and be the best they can be. They choose any day, they choose everyday and so can you.

It is not important which day you choose to step forward, only that you choose to do so. Many people choose New Years, but you don’t have to and you’re not lesser for it if you don’t.

Thank you my dear readers, I hope the coming year treats you better than the last. God bless.

~ S. Wallace