Hoping For The Best

I woke up this morning in a house finally free of slumbering house guests, where I didn't have to leap right out of bed to make several pots of coffee and an interesting breakfast, nor begin planning the day's activities, entertainment and meals for out-of-town company, in the deep-freeze weather that has been the backdrop to the past ten days of holiday season. Therefore, I woke up with time to stare at the ceiling and contemplate the fact that 2007 is history, and we are now launched into a new year. A new year never seems all that much different from the old year to me, yet I always have unrealistic hopes that somehow it will be better. I'm not much of a list or resolution maker (although I did make some resolutions for the future in this post late last year), but I do enjoy reading other people's year-end lists of various and sundry things - best books and movies being my real favorites.

This morning Alternet.com offers a couple of lists that I enjoyed reading, and offer here for wider reading pleasure or annoyance, depending on your mindset. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink fame, as well as her more recent endeavor Global Exchange, offers us these Ten Good Things About 2007, many of which are environmental victories. Many of my environmental sites are also featuring lists of events which seem to prove that real change for the better (either at the ultimate hour or too little too late, who knows) is finally washing over the planet.

It's of course easier to find bad things about the year that was, and Stephen Pizzo of NewsforReal offers us this list of Twenty Annoying Things About 2007. Some are seriously annoying, some annoying in a much smaller way. Some must be local to his area, and I really feel this guy watches a lot more TV than is healthy, but then, he's a journalist. Whether your list for the past year would be the good things or the annoying and bad ones, I want to unrealistically hope for our Blue Voice readers that the year ahead holds a list of mostly life-improving events, that hope will continue to burn in some corner of our souls, that change for the better is on its way. Or, as the Spanish much more practically say: Para todos: un próspero año nuevo.

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