Goodbye 2010

It's been quite a year.

We have lost, won, fought, stood our ground, been around the block a few times, smiled, laughed, cried...

We've woven stories, lifted hearts, begged for mercy, been broken and need I say...shocked into our reality.

Babies unborn, continue to die by the droves and people who still act like it's nothing at all.

Children so out of touch, harassed to the point of absolute break...by peers and those around them that they felt their only recourse was suicide.

We see the hope of children destroyed every day. Their future squashed and ground into fine particles of dust that are blown easily away with the next gust of hot air that arises from convoluted political bluster and uncaring lethargy.

Our world spins faster...our heads twist trying to keep up. And the world seems far less warm and inviting anywhere you go.

What lies ahead in this new year? Will there ever be a return to old standards and ideals? You know, the ones that helped make us feel secure and safe in our own homes? The ones that allowed us to be us, not the people that are being remolded and shaped into what fits best in this new world we live in!

I have become quite cynical in my dotage.

I see little to encourage any hope of real change. But then...I hope...that I'm wrong.

We'll see.

Happy New Year, just the same. And let's hope it will be better than this old tattered and weary, worn one that's sneaking out the back door with it's tail tucked between it's legs!

My biggest reward in life is my husband and son...and the little family that remains. I love them all and find that they are the only reason I can truly look forward to anything in this life. May you, whoever you are...find a reason to keep on keeping on. To keep hoping.

And may God, who blessedly controls everything...keep you through the next new 12 months so that you may come out the other end of it, still sane and doing some good in the world.

Happy New Year.