Life as it is

Well, the countdown has begun officially now...less than 12 hours before the New Year!
I wonder what tomorrow will look like. I don't know about you but I like to go out and see how different the new year looks and feels. It is different, I can't explain it but it is and it does feel different when you're out on New Years day. I suppose it's the revitalization we feel by the fact that the new year symbolizes a new start, a new beginning, or perhaps a second chance at what you did wrong the year before. But it's not even that, I find myself feeling almost alien as I take in the new feelings on the first day of the new year. It feels virginal, it feels innocent and naked. It needs you and me to fill it, it needs what we do to make it real. I love walking or sitting outside in the cold winter sun. You can feel everything around you begin anew right along with you. The crisp cold air as it crystallizes in your nose as you inhale, the spread of your breath in a cold burst of warm fog out of your mouth. The first day of the new year, the cold of winter, nature and all her splendor, a hot cup of something and the company of those we love is probably the best way to bring in the new and toss out the old! God Bless Canada, God Bless each and everyone, God Bless the soldiers and all those who walk along side them in the endless search for peace. May 2010 be a year in which we reflect all the bad that has happened and let us turn a corner and walk int the direction of peace. It is a short walk to reach but such a long time coming. Take another person's hand and show them the way, let us become leaders to all those who are lost or too weak to find the way. Ambassadors of peace and goodwill.