Tag Archives: New Year’s Day
Starting Off
The snow started falling early in the morning. Somehow it seemed a fitting start to a new year. We were not the first ones to go far a walk in the forest to start the year. The new snow already showed the footprints, or more accurately hoof prints, of the deer living in the forest.
Happy New Year
Welcome to 2025! If you have a seat belt, it is probably a good idea to fasten it now – it’s going to be a wild ride. There will be joy and sorrow, death and birth, war and peace, natural disasters, triumph and defeat. Just like every year. I’m simultaneously anticipating and dreading what the […]
Starting Fresh
Calendar dates are just arbitrary numbers. As Carolyn Arends sings, “every day is New Year’s Day.” But we don’t always approach things that way. 2024 is a clean slate. How will you spend the year? I saw the new year in the way I have for more than 30 years now. My wife and I […]
Another Year Begins
Welcome to 2023. Does this new year feel any different than the old one? If it does, I hope it feels better. This year has so much unrealized potential. I feel as if it is going to be a good one. I say that every year – I’m an optimist. In print anyway. Or maybe […]
Another Year Ends…
I feel as if I should be marking the end of 2022 here somehow, but I am not sure exactly how. For many people it has been a year best forgotten quickly. The COVID -19 pandemic seems to drag on, though at least the panic part seems to have died down as we have come […]
Predictions For 2021
Welcome to 2021. Got any plans for this year? Do you think it is safe to make them, given how many of our plans were upended last year? Most of us enter a new year with a sense of optimism. No matter what has come before, this is a new beginning. The slate is clean; […]
Welcome to 2020!
Happy New Year! Despite what you may have read elsewhere, it is not the first day of a new decade. That comes on January 1, 2021. I have no idea how or when the idea started that decades begin with zero. I guess if enough people accept something wrong as true, it magically becomes true. […]
Welcome to 2019
This new year already doesn’t seem right somehow. I suppose I’ll get over that. Though after seeing the old year out and the new one in the same way for a quarter of a century, change is hard. Last night we didn’t count down to midnight with the same group of friends we have shared […]
Happy New Year!
No, I didn’t get it wrong. I know what day it is. Today is Christmas Day. Think about it though. Maybe December 25 should be the first day of the year. Certainly the birth of Christ was momentous enough, even if not recognized as such at the time. Most of the world divides their calendar […]
What I Wanted To Say Was…
Sometimes I just don’t know where my mind is going. Today I will be disciplined, I promise. I knew what I wanted to say when I sat down to write a post for January 1, New Year’s Day. However, what I typed was completely different. Given that it is a new year, I wanted to […]
random thoughts from lorne 
Recent Comments