A New Year Begins

It is time to throw the old calendar out!   It is time to start over anew.  What an opportunity!  My motto for the year is "If you can't fix it, pitch it!"   And I am resolute in my resolution!!!   My dad always made us come up with New Year's resolution (on paper).   I am here to say that Jim Cooper usually copied mine because he was too stubborn to write his own!  Didn't matter-he was not going to turn over any new leaf for anyone!

We always threw grades in and we both made top grades.   Not valedictorian material so long as Lesley Bowers was around whose mother drilled him day and night but good enough, except in PE where I was a total wash-out!   We had to go to church three times a week anyway so there was no improving on that attendance record!  So now, we were down to clean up your room and not eat so much mustard.  But we winged it!  It is great to take stock annually of your dreams and safe havens.

So what do you do if you are 75!   Make each day count and find your own joy!  No one can do that for you even if they want to.  What makes me truly happy is only known to me!   I am the one who is always there and can't escape the experience!   Others can understand, sometimes, but they are living their own experience from which they cannot escape.

So, today, I seek for your own unique joy!