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‘For the Rest of the Year’
A positive New Year’s Eve
On this last day of both December and 2018 I look out my office window and see snow falling and being blown about by a stiff wind. There are a multitude of thoughts my noggin could have generated in reaction to this — mostly negative — but the first thought out of my noggin was a joke.
Okay, so it’s snowing yet again but the one thing I can be certain of is that today’s snowstorm will, in fact, most certainly be the very last snowstorm of the year!
See what I did? I turned what to me is normally a rather depressing thing into something very positive. I actually made myself chuckle just a wee bit.
That’s what I really like about New Year’s Eve. It is a day rife with potential for humor — even if it is somewhat idiotic humor. It’s all about the tweaking of perspectives.
I remember last year on New Year’s Eve I went to the bank, not to make a deposit or withdrawal, but rather to pick up a free calendar for the new year. I am rather adverse to calendars. They’re all wrong. But I still get a calendar for my kitchen wall every year. After all, I need to know when to pay the rent.
The bank had four different calendars to choose from. I looked through one that was entitled, Wetlands of the Great Plains. There were a lot of pictures of…
