Everyone is slobbering with New Year's cheer, some are even talking sentimental drivel which I find excruciating others bemoan the gloomy state they find themselves in. By tomorrow they will forget it all and return to their 363 1/4 days position regarding all their family and friends whatever that might be. But it will definitely not be their midnight 12/31 cheery/gloomy selves. I tend to be outside it all since my position is one and the same 364 1/4 days each year. (I don't cotton to leap years if you must know. "I don't cotton to" now there is an interesting idiomatic expression. Alright if you must know the derivation is from the 16th century and it referred to the cotton fibers melding together properly as in "cotton well;" hence: "cotton to" by the 19th century and its meaning was to get along with. Used primarily in the south at one time.)
What I believe folks should be focusing on come the switch from 12/31 to 1/1 is survival in a post "new normal" world with its odious economic woes, outrageous politics, the octopus media (print, broadcast, cable, internet, smart phones etc.), the slippery slope of relenquishing privacy, mysterious governmental policies and rules, societal militarization, and the ever constants of violence, fear, racism (covering all "isms"), poverty and their big brother IGNORANCE.
But point in fact who dares look outside their personal circumstance to examine where it is we and our future generations are headed? Ah hell raise a glass. . . "No snowflake ever sees its part in an avalanche."
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