This is my 6th annual New Year’s post with additions for 2018. I wasn’t going to do this again; six years seemed like plenty. Then I read through it and thought that this year needs a peace, love, and can’t-we-all-just-get-along? post more than any other year I’ve lived through. Except maybe 1968… (eh, was that really fifty years ago?)
So I wish you all peace, love, and a year of forgiving and forgetting. Happy 2018 everyone — and thank you for reading, commenting, and sharing my little place in cyberspace.
There are two kinds of people in the world:
1. those who would go to Times Square for New Year’s Eve, and those who couldn’t be paid enough to go…
Sunrise from our bedroom windows
2. those who go out for New Year’s Eve, and those who stay home…
3. those who would rehab an old vacant house, and those who would look for a new one instead…
4. Cat-lovers and Dog-lovers…
5. Savers and Pitchers…
6. Dreamers and Doers…
7. those who believe and those who scoff…
8. those who stay, and those who go…
9. those who love snow, and those who don’t…
10. those who take naps, and those who feel superior to those who take naps…
11. those who love city streets, and those who love country roads…
12. those who look up and those who look down…
13. those who eat their fruits and vegetables, and those who eat their meat’n potatoes…
14. those whose glass is half-empty and those whose glass is half-full…
15. those who work for pay and those who work for love; and those who are blessed to do both at the same time…
Mr. H.C’s truck
16. those who believe santa is a democrat, those who believe santa is a republican, and those who believe santa should just start a third party for the rest of us — the Dempublicans? The Republicrats? (Surely he would get more than just my vote…)
17. Those who love to go shopping and those who would rather eat worms than go to a Walmart.
18. Flitterers and Plodders…
At different times in our lives, we can be any of these. (Well, probably not too many of us would admit to being that turtle…)
Me? I have been all these — a city lover, a country girl; a scoffer, a believer; an optimist, a pessimist; a cat-lover, a dog-lover; a dreamer, a doer; a shopper and a worm-eater…(Though I would have to be paid a lot of cash to go to Times Square on New Year’s Eve.)
Can we remember this?
Can we remember that our differences make this beautiful world what it is?
Can we let go of our prejudices, our prides, our preconceptions, our (fill in the blank here)… and just love each other?
May grace, peace, and joy be yours in abundance in 2018.
the circle of life 
I’m up for all of it, except the forgetting part. Forgive away–but forgetting makes you a repeat target. How about forgiving and moving on?
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I’ve started to reply to your comment three times now. And really, it would make a whole new post. So rather than writing a long reply, I’ll just say that yes, we are generally incapable of forgetting. Even when we want to. Especially if it isn’t an option to move on — that would be with a child, a sibling, a parent — so we have to make peace with it somehow. Thanks for being thoughtful — you’ve sparked several conversations. Peace.
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What a lovely post! Wishing you many blessings in the new year! ❤️❤️
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Thank you. Be blessed as well…
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What a lovely,ovely New Years piece. I enjoyed it so much the first time I had to go through it again. I had fun identifying myself in each given choice and then asking my husband to do the same. We had fun. Thank you.
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Your comment made me smile. Thank you so much for your always-kind words.
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💙 this!
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