The New Year

Happy New Year to you all.

This morning, when I am supposed to be back at work and actually working, I find myself contemplating The New Year instead. A couple of clients have expressed disquiet over the fact that we are in the 13th year of the 21st century and their beliefs make them anxious about what 'bad luck" the year may bring.

If the opening day of 2013 is anything to go by it will be a year filled with the usual mixture of good and bad, happy and sad and laughter and tears. We spent New Years Eve with some very good friends and had a very relaxed and comfortable evening, full of laughter and humour. We watched a local fireworks display at ease on our friends patio, safe in the knowledge that our epileptic dog was at the Veterinary Hospital carefully sedated and being monitored so it was unlikely that the bangs would trigger a fit. However when we got home around one in the morning our little black cat was sporting a massive cut on her side, clearly she had been caught on barbed wire somewhere. She was in so much pain that catching her without hurting her further was an exercise in agility and dexterity that I was not capable of at this time in the morning. Vet boy however scooped her up and we set off for the Veterinary Hospital for the second time that day, where they cleaned her up and have left the wound open to drain.

In the morning we collected both animals, one safe and well and the other still in considerable pain but healing.

Although we face a great deal of uncertainty in this country with a constitutional referendum and election coming up, both of which promise to be violent if previous years are anything to go by, it is a year to look forward and hope that any improvement in political relationships will allow our moribund economy to move forward a bit.

All in all I think I look forward to the usual variety that each year holds. And today I embrace the highs and lows, at peace with what may come. Although such equanimity is unlikely to hold all through the year it is a good way to begin.