Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my blogging friends. With the unprecedented suffering that we are bearing witness to this week, please  remember that the human spirit is strong and resilient and is buoyed by the outpouring of love and support that the world is giving to our suffering neighbors. Even Bush finally got off the stick!

I hope that you have had a chance to donate to some care providers and a moment to pray for all that lost their lives and those that lost their loved ones, their homes, businesses, and belongings. Imagine beginning a new year bereft of even the land that held my home. Imagine, knowing that "home" does not exist for you anywhere anymore. How do you begin to build anew when you are alone and living in a field while waiting for someone to come to your aid and all around you there is death, bodies, dysentery, no drinking water, no sanitation facilities, and chaos?

As for simpler and sillier matters, please know that you  have a home here with me on pomegranatesandpaper. There's always a comfortable chair here for you to sit in, and a table on which to rest your cup of coffee. Stop by whenever you can during the year. I intend to make it quite a scintillating year of prose and art. There will usually be something interesting to read about, a couple of jokes, a large dose of sarcasm, and I promise to hold down usual whining breast beating, and gnashing of teeth.

May your year be blessed with good health, love, joy, prosperity,contentment, paintings on the walls, books on your shelves and fire in your belly!