Happy New Year: Just Roll With It

(David Moyers art)

I've often made New Year's resolutions--you know, the usual goals to spend less, lose weight, read more books, etc.--but that list is predicated upon the New Year being "normal." Sometimes events take charge--a death in the family, a corporate layoff, a house fire, getting a scholarship at a top college, winning the lottery (good things happen too)--that upend all the priorities.

In 2024 I had to learn once again that nature and other people had far more to say about how the year went than me, myself, and I.

In the New Year stuff will happen, so just roll with it.