Well, here we are again. Another year is coming to an end, and a decade, too. All the television channels are showing retrospectives of “The Best Of…“ All the folk who try to keep the peace are on high alert. Taxi drivers are already spending the night’s tips. And people everywhere are getting together to celebrate and bring in the New Year--or perhaps already have. It is always bittersweet to see the year draw to a close. Some years more than others. This is the last day of the last year I still had a grandparent. This is the last year my original baby, Addison, will be a pre-teen. This is the end of the year my new baby, Scarlett, turned two. And so on. But, this is also the last year that Nick had work to do on his degree. And the end of a really tough decade of turmoil for many of us. So, what face to bring to the new year? There is a temptation to look back at unresolved resolutions from past years and lament what went awry, but the temptation to feel powerful in the face of possibility is stronger on this one day. We all believe that the new year will bring a new us--better than we have been, and stronger. In Ann Braybrooks’ King Of The Beasties, Tigger becomes king of the Hundred Acre Woods for just a moment--and it is a moment full of potential. A blessed new year to us all.

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