In a city like Stockton you’re never quite sure if revelers are celebrating the arrival of the new year with fireworks or gunfire.  

All the same, it’s best to just stay inside.

As I see it the new year gives us all an opportunity for a fresh start in some area of our life.

I imagine we all have things about us we’d like to change (for the better) ways in which we’d like to better handle things.

There’s nothing wrong with making the attempt.

As Eric Zorn wrote: 

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Happy New Year!

4 Responses to “A Stockton New Year”

1. cwinwc says:

   January 2, 2008 at 9:13 am

   If we break our New Year’s resolutions 4 years in a row would that be considered “Resolutions for the Cycle?”
2. Stoogelover says:

   January 2, 2008 at 9:40 am

   I resolved years ago to make no new year resolutions, though I do work on improving my life as an ongoing process.
3. l.marie.d says:

   January 2, 2008 at 12:22 pm

   i think sometimes that because i am terrible with my ‘resolutions’ that i blow off other people’s resolutions instead of encouraging them. i’ve been wondering lately how i could help encourage a genuine pursuit. i think resolutions can be good, and i like hearing people’s short lists because you learn a lot about them.
4. Brady says:

   January 3, 2008 at 9:12 am

   I love the chance to start again.