The New Year

 Let me be part of the narrative in the story they will write some day." - Eliza Schuyler Hamilton.

"I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable. I am an original." - Aaron Burr.

 

With the New Year about to begin we think about where we have been and where we want to be in the next year.  Awaiting us are new opportunities.  In preparing to greet 2017 it is wise to pause and reflect of a developing a vision of who we wish to become. There will be disappointments and failures but we greet this dawn together.  You are not alone.   All the glory that we experience come s in the company of friends, family, community and country.

 

Bob Dylan read a powerful and moving speech at the Noble Prize awards.  Yet, there was one line, which caught my attention. “As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a “singular persona,” not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. “

 

Maya Angelo wrote, ”We are all at once both a composition and a composer. We have the ability not only to compose the future of our own lives, but to help compose the future of everyone around us and the communities in which we live.” 

 

Now is the time to reflect on where we want to go, individually and collectively, in the coming year.  Let us pause, conjure up that vision and then make it a reality.  If you can dream it, it can be.