Post, New Year's Eve Style

The last day of an incredible year, filled with one completely unexpected event after another. Gratitude is too modest a word for what I feel at its conclusion. Many questions come to mind.

How do I make the most of its richness? Is it possible to celebrate all its goodness in just one night? And what's next? What happens tomorrow?

It's exciting that this New Year's Eve it doesn't seem as though anything is coming to an end. As a friend said to me recently--a friend who tends to make sweeping statements about the condition of the universe--"2010 is the year of the new everything." I began and will end this year in the most wonderful New York City, but I now know that life as we know it does not start and end here (who knew?)--this is something new. It (life) will take place (for me) in a brand new city for most of my 2010.

I think, upon reflection, that the best way to use this newness is to let it energize me and inspire me to use the last year for the production of good and beauty. So to the someones (or the no ones) who have ever read, will ever read, or will never read this little blog, I promise you that I will use this year to fulfill a dream I have up to this point been too scaredy cat to pursue: I will write. I will write bad things and good things and things that are not important. I will write and write and write, when I'm tired, when I don't want to, when I have nothing to write. So I promise you, dear invisible, possibly/probably nonexistant readers that I will write to you. And I hope you like what I write.

Happy New Year!