The giant ball has just dropped in New York City, so in Eastern Standard Time in the United States it is officially 2011. It will soon be time to dump out the stale champagne at the bottom of the flutes, put away the black plastic stovepipe hats, shut off the music and say goodnight.
Of course, most of you will be reading this post once the sun has risen again. It’s the first morning of the new year. Though it may be cliché to ask, we ask anyway: what does it mean to you? What will be most important to you in two thousand eleven?
If you are parents, new or not – God bless you – may your shining joy be your child or children.
If you are finishing school this year may your heart be afire with the thrill of where your future might take you.
If you are about to retire may all your plans for truly golden years start to come to fruition.
And if you are artists … if you are driven to put words to the page, song to the air or images to the canvas … if you have a passion within you to speak truth and create beauty … if you cannot stop creating art despite the discouraging words you have heard … if you create it regardless of even the encouragement you receive … if you love what you do but 2010 was a hard year for finding an outlet in which to do it, well then: may the new year bring the way forward.
May 2011 be the year you get discovered.
Happy New Year!
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