Happy New Year

by John W Rodat on December 31, 2012

Got an email earlier today noting (complaining?) that I’d been offline for about a month. Apologies to all. Was initially caught up in work.

Then came the shooting of children in Connecticut …

Everything else instantly seemed to become too small to publish on and I wasn’t ready to say anything about the shooting. Not that I didn’t have a reaction; I did. But whatever I might have added at the time would have been loaded with emotion and not have been what the topic deserves. So while I’ve started thinking it out, I’m not ready to publish yet. Admittedly, my current thinking on the topic is pretty dark and not just on the shooting itself, but also on many responses. So it’ll be a while longer.

The most recent 10 days or so, I’ve been concentrating on family, mostly grandchildren, who always brighten one’s mood.

And now, Ms. R and I are in NH, pretty much without the benefits – and intrusions – of electronic comunications technology. (This posting is being written at the local library.) No landline, which is a story in itself, no Internet, intermittent cell phone reception: what a throwback. It’s a throwback, but for the moment, a good one. As the year ends and as elected officials in Washington, DC stumble over themselves and one another to save us and themselves from a crisis of their creation, it’s probably better that we spend the last of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, shoveling snow and watching the wood stove.

So we’re making the new year’s transition a quiet one.

However you celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of the next, we wish you and yours a safe, happy holiday, and a very good 2013.

JWR

Comments on this entry are closed.

Previous post:

Next post: