Out with the old…
A year ago I blogged that I was going to see in the New Year through a veil of Lemsip and handkerchiefs. Despite that I wrote:
But let’s leave the negatives behind. I have reason to believe that 2011 will be a good year and that is where my focus is now both for myself and for all of you. So that’s it for 2010: farewell to the old year and welcome the new.
A pocket full of money and a cellar full of beer
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
It has indeed been a good year for me and when I wrote that post I already knew that I would be waving farewell to 27 1/2 years in the public sector and starting life anew in the Spring. Which seems appropriate somehow: I firmly believe that one should reinvent oneself every so often and the turning of the years and the anticipation of the Spring rebirth is a good time to do it.
Happy New Year
I am not a person who who feels the need to ritualise a lot of stuff in any formal way, but it is nevertheless the case that the old ritual year with its base in the cycles of the seasons in a rural economy speak to deep-rooted instincts, I think. Part of the power of ritual and myth is precisely that it has evolved to speak in that way – unsuccesful myths don’t get internalised and re-enacted and whither into the unknown and meaningless rituals lose their power and survive only as unsymbolic performances which have no resonance.
But that is all for another post, maybe.
I am fortunate to be able to say that 2011 was a good year for me and I am optimistic that 2012 will continue in the same way. I’m never sure how many people ever read the stuff that I write here but for those that do, here’s wishing you a contended but stimulating 2012.
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