The last day of the year...

This year has been amazing and powerful in so many different ways. I am grateful for a number of things but nothing more than the fact the Mayan calendar of ending the world didn't happen. I imagine he just got tired of doing it one day and walked away, thinking he had done enough and in the year 2012 surely someone else will have figured out a way to calendar events. Boy, was he correct! Everyone has, wants, or is getting into the "smart" phone world of continuous communication. I found myself just on Saturday telling someone to send me a text for an appointment in lieu of handing me an reminder card. We both know the card will be lost in a matter of minutes after leaving anyway, and the text will be there way longer as a permanent reminder. Someone told me the other day that it was time they cleaned out their inbox on their phone, they try to do it annually. Really? Annually? I'm much more anal about my texts than to leave them hanging around for a year at the time. I like clean mail boxes. Keeping for a week troubles me. I'm grateful for good friends. Those near and far who keep me sane, hold me close, protect me at times from myself, laugh with me, laugh at me, teach me on a daily basis not to take life or myself to seriously, and encourage me when I feel nothing but defeated. I hope my friends can say the same thing about me. I hope that my brief time upon the Earth will result in more than a thimble of carbon to dissipate when I'm gone. Tomorrow is the first day of 2013. It causes us to reflect on our past, wonder about our futures, regrets shadow accomplishments. What will my goals be? Will I make any New Year's Resolution? Will you? Happy New Year to us --- one and all.