Happy New Year all
Here's hoping that 2006 is a better year than the one it replaced. Here's to fewer freak storms, disasters, wars, epidemics and needless death and to more stability, compassion and genuinely positive action.
On a personal note 2005 wan't our best year - it started well as we settled in Brooklyn, work got better, Jude's PhD was flying then bam - her dad gets cancer and things start to spin some. He gets sick, then sicker and in September he dies.
Around the same time I start to cough, am diagnosed with cancer and am awaiting treatment as I type (I'm coughing too, in a weird hunched position that I've convinced myself will minimize the chance of hernia)
Yet weirdly 2005 wasn't that sad or depressing a year. Friends did what friends should, family fretted and time marched on; we coped and carried on with the day to day routines that life demands. The cliche is that it's all about the people in your life - I'm starting to get it. The people around you are your life... get the right people and they're what make it rich and interesting and challenging and all of the things that you want it to be; get them wrong and you're being taken up a back alley by an anonymous John in a bid to get enough cash together for your next burger. Or worse - you live a passionless life.
Enough of this though. Happy New Year all.
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