Well, it’s that time of year again, friends. After the year that was supposed to be better than the year before (that wasn’t), we have finally reached the last month. As I have done for the past 10 years, I will once again write my daily letters to the world for the next 24 Days. Time to pull my brain (and my fingers) out of mothballs and make some December noise.
For anyone new to this (who would be new to this?), this yearly exercise is when I challenge myself to compose an original blogpost every day from the first to the twenty-fourth of December. There are no subject rules, except that I have to come up with the subject on that day…no planning ahead.
It has been a monumental year in many ways in my life. I am interested in what my perspective might be. I joked with a friend recently that too many good things have happened to me this year, and I might have lost my edge. However, I expect that I will be able to bring forward the cynicism and angst that we all have come to know so well. Though the year has brought some wonderful treats, this old world keeps giving us curveballs to keep us from feeling too confident. As Robert Duval’s character said at the end of the movie Tender Mercies, “I don’t trust happiness, never did, never will.”
So, neither you nor I know what direction things will go this year (and next), but I’m going to try…at least one more time.
Yay! It’s back!