New Year’s Eve

The closing moments of 2001. it’s been still and quiet much of the evening. And it is now. Blessedly quiet, as if the fireworks have been spent and the last of them have flickered, popped, and faded in the distance. At least for now. I wonder what it will sound like at midnight, however.

Earlier, as I left work, everyone was wishing each other “Happy New Year.” It’s a nice feeling to say the words, when you think about it. Year after year, it’s always the same. Familiar, reassuring. One co-worker said he hoped it was the best New Year ever. I said, “What else could it be? We gotta believe it.”

Then I stepped out into the cool night air. The moon was still full. I pulled my coat up under my chin, walking briskly.

At the house in Charleston, I took my usual place on the porch in the rocker. I was bundled up good. There was a distinct smell of woodsmoke in the air. Sweet fragrance and gift of memory from winters past. The cat was coming in and out of the house, looking up at the spotlight beam arcing across the cloudy, but moon-illuminated sky.

It is the dormant season, but the beginning of a new year. The middle of winter, and yet the start of something new.

It’s midnight, according to my clocks now. Quiet still. I am amazed. It is as if the raucus merrimakers have retired into the year just past and stand in silent awe at the gateway to the year 2002. New possibilities, new beginnings. New hope.

My neighborhood awakens. The fireworks are going off. There are yells and shouts in the distance, echoing across this little patch of suburbia.

The world is not the same place it was minutes before.

Happy New Year!

hey.. happy new year!!hope ya have a great year!! much luv and god bless!! Lisa

Paradise Regained (2)

December 31, 2001

Nice! A very Happy New Year to you and yours!

Can you believe the 21st century is 1% over already? I still can’t even believe the 20th century is over, and I wasn’t even there for as long as most folk. Goodbye 20th century! What’s next 21st?

Happy new Year my friend!

~~Smiles to you dear friend!~~

Thanks! Happy New Year to you! (Big smile) I was on the road for 7 hours to retrieve Z yesterday – we only made it to 9:30 – figured to get an early start this morning. Here’s to a peaceful new year filled with contentment (raise my coffee cup.)

The world changes from minute to minute when we pay attention with sensitivity, as you do. I also enjoyed the feeling of saying Happy New Year to my co-worker, and people, even strangers, on the phone yesterday…I also feel the hope that the human invention of the calendar year brings, the reassurance of cycles,renewal..And I also saw the amazing full moon!So I say to you, Happy New Year [Dream S

🙂 sounds relaxing, the walker on the porch.

May the new year bring us peace. We are so very fortunate to spend New Year’s eve sitting on our porches and watching the old year go out. If I had one wish this year, it would be that we find that simple peace within our reach throughout the year.

This is one of the most telling and enjoyable entries I have read from your journal thus far…I don’t know maybe it was the tone of your voice or the present tense or something indefinable and approaching something like hope. I’m so used to admiring the nostalgia in your writing, perhaps I had overlooked anticipation. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Hope this is one of the best year’s ever.

there are all kinds of grammatical errors up there^^, Sorry, just overlook them and laugh at me. haha.

Happiest of New Years to you 🙂