Happy New Year!
Celebrating the New Year is all about shedding the past and starting afresh. The more years we have behind us, the more we compare.
The good ole days as they are known are completely different for a 30 year old and a 60 year old. That old baggage can get real heavy. Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, Satchel Paige, said “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.”
Besides the celebrations, people want, honestly want, to keep those New Years resolutions, but maybe, they aim too high. No one said that your resolutions have to be on the top shelf. Start walking more. After roaming around in a certain dollar store for about an hour, plying the aisles closely, a clerk ask if she could help me find something. No, I replied.
I had lost my list and was just roaming around trying to remember what was on the list. Really, roaming around a store is what I call “retail therapy.” So you can do your walking inside stores or up and down your road, just walk.
Learn a new skill. Our library has countless how-to-do books. Get a fun hobby even if it is an adult coloring book. Travel more, go see some local historical sights, but if you ever can, go to Venice.
Be on time. That one hits close to home. Eat less junk food as I polish off a box of chocolate covered cherries. Guilty as charged. Write a letter to someone, this is a dying art.
All these are doable and most likely resolutions that you will achieve and keep. The journey begins with the first step, that’s why they taught us to walk.
Everybody knows that for good luck in the new year you have to partake of black-eyed peas and greens, peas for coins and greens for greenbacks. Some believe that you have to eat 365 peas while eating the greens, or your luck won’t stick.
When midnight comes tonight, neighborhoods will be celebrating, fireworks booming and lighting up the sky, firecrackers popping, the more noise, the better to scare away the bad spirits. Boo.
Hello, 2016, Good-bye 2015. May this be the best year of your life! Health and wealth to all