It's a New Year

The year 2005 is now history as you read this in January, but it’s still 2005 for me as I write this in early December. The shopping and anticipation of the big holiday is beginning to build to a fever pitch. But what holiday?

There is a fuss being made about whether to celebrate Christmas or to be more politically correct, celebrate the season with Happy Holidays or Season’s Greetings, etc., etc., etc.

Now I know in the new year this is old news and many are occupied with things of more importance, like how do these bills get paid that seem to be coming in with every mail delivery.

One thing I do hope for the new year is that we won’t be so overly sensitive to being politically correct. I don’t even like the term anymore.

I think it was Rodney King who said, “Why can’t we all just get along?” So simplistic and yet so eloquently said. One hope I have for the new year is that we as a people can quit living like we’re walking on egg shells and ready to be taken to task over the most ridiculous things.

For some of us, the memories of the last year are not pleasant. For some, 2005 was a very rough year…while for others, it may have been a very good year.

But the year 2005 is now history. We’ve turned the page from December 2005 to January 2006. Wow. It’s a new sheet, as it were, a blank slate for each of us, pure and unblemished to do with as we please.

The start of a new year.

Now if you’re happy with the way things are, just keep doing things the way you have been and you’ll keep getting the same results. But…if you’d like some things to be different, well then you may have to start to do things in a different way.

With the right attitude, things may not change, but may appear to change because our response and attitude has changed.

Let me remind you that we start with a new sheet every day to do with as we please. We need not wait for a new year to resolve to do better or to be better. There are opportunities each and every day for this.

As we begin the new year, let us do so with a positive attitude and outlook.

At this time, let me take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you, our readers and advertisers, a very Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year!

A. Robert Scott
Publisher/Owner

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