One Year Ends...
To know who needs help, you need only just ask” ~Old City Bar, Trans-Siberian Orchestra
I wanted to write a blog post about something today, but I’m not sure what, exactly. I knew I wanted it to be about Sandy Hook and #26Acts, about gift giving and how to support authors (and really, any service professional/artist/entrepreneur/small business owner), about my own “year in review” and my secret hopes and wishes for 2013, about losing and recovering my Christmas spirit this year, about joining Free Cycle and throwing out my childhood stuffed animals and just generally trying to declutter my life, on missing my mother and my grandmother more each year since their deaths, not less. However, I just couldn’t get it all to gel. I wanted to talk about giving, but I also wanted to ask for things. I wanted to talk about kindness and happiness, but I also wanted to talk about loss and sadness. In our hearts, these things can all mix together very naturally—great joy can often exist beside great sorrow; selflessness can be entwined with selfishness. Very often, in our heads, they go together as well—rationales and rationalizations for contrary ways of thinking and being. But on the cold, hard reality of paper (or computer screen, as the case may be), it’s harder to mask selfishness as generosity, sorrow as joy, and thoughts and feelings that make sense in my head all seem pompous, self-serving, disjointed, and crass. So, instead, I’ll simply wish you all a Happy New Year and hope that somewhere among these words and links you’ll find what it is I meant to say.
"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." ~Khalil Gibran
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Happy New Year.
-Jimmy