Happy New Year and all the best in 2025
Ah yes 2025, the beginning of a new year and the tidying up and accounting for what transpired in the previous one. The sorting of items and events into the win/loss columns, a time for the pigeons of transgressions to come home to roost.
Not to mention the mental metaphysical housecleaning necessary for this time of year. Lessons learned from last year and projections for the coming year. The should’a, would’a, could’a, not doing that again. But I think this will work well for the coming year.
Not surprisingly many struggle with this time of the year as they hate paperwork, accounting, tax prep, planning, and above all accepting accountability. Can we just skip all that stuff and maybe go to a Mexican resort instead for an all-inclusive ten days?
For others it is a fresh slate upon which anything can be written. A time of great optimism and trying of ideas and techniques particular to your line of endeavor.
Of course overlaid on this background thought and effort are the daily trappings of the growing families all thrashing along at a thousand miles an hour growing up and going in all directions at once. Things never stand still and change is constant and on-going requiring you to paddle hard just to keep up.
Every week it seems there are new and radical break thoughts and discoveries of time and space. The quantum world throws an entirely different light on our previous beliefs. It is at once both exciting and terrifying.
Hud and P-man are a sniper team operating out of firebase Foxtrot. They are good, maybe too good at their skill set, as their ability to perform and survive brings increasingly difficult and dangerous missions. A powerful evil other than Charlie is stalking Hud and P-man. Can Hud’s spiritual link to his beloved Daria tip the balance to level the playing field?
Hasn’t every red-blooded man waited his own MAN SHED?
Of course he has, his Castle away from home where the world is his and his alone, his man cave filled with his specific interests. A place where he can say what he pleases, drink his libations, smoke his preferences, listen to rock music loud, watch whatever the hell he wants on a huge assed TV, BBQ whatever and whenever, and have whomever tickles his fancy over to party! Hell yeah, oh hell yeah. The way life should be for a hard working male!
It seems “humanity” is intent to complain about their lot no matter what their situation is. A great pity as one should be aware there are always many who have it much worse and those who have it better no matter what situation you find yourself in. This year I encourage you to focus on the good stuff and forget the bad.
And with all that said I am going to take my camera and dogs and go out and enjoy the winter season, delight in watching the enthusiasm of the dogs jumping and thrashing around in the snow and the photo opportunities afforded by the wonders of Mother Nature.
All the very best to you in 2025
Martin E. Silenus