Happy New Year !!!

The month of December has begun to scare the daylights out of me. It stretches between the year gone by and the new one to come like a black hole ready to devour and spit out all that remains of humanity in one dark breath.

But December gets help, if not from nature by way of tsunamis or earthquakes, then from us when we bring out to the fore that which should reside forever in darkness. I shudder to think of what more we are capable of.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - thus goes a Native American saying. I think we have already borrowed too much of it in every which way and all that we have left to pass on is a legacy of bloodbath.

And yet I cannot give up on hope. It bursts forth like a little sapling from within the depths of a stained soil. I want to nurture it. I need to nurture it.

Now that the calendar has turned its leaves, discarded a year gone by and heralded in the brand new sunshine of January, I can breathe a small sigh of relief and say a little prayer.

Of Hope.

Of Change.

For Children.

For Us.

For Safety.

For Prosperity.

For Peace.

For A Happy New Year...