Chilly

IT has been a week since the frigidness of winter set in and I am now looking forward to an early spring. (what will Phil's prediction be this year, I wonder?) This type of cold holds a sort of nostalgia for me since NY winters start much earlier than January. By Thanksgiving we would be playing two hand touch in freezing conditions in the PS 85 school yard and at night sleding down sheets of ice and mini mountains produced by the Bronx, Dept of Sanitations 24 hr. a day snow plows. Even the buses had chains on their tires in those days. Business as usual.Loving it!

It is interesting to me that people are ready to deny global warming from one cold winter when we have experienced about a decade worth of unusally mild winters and a host of natural disasters. With this type of logic lets just have two seasons; winter & summer. Spring & Fall are nearly non-existant anyway.

In my experience, people that argue against solving the problems associated with climate change are inching closer to facing their own mortality and cannot see past their own little bubble for a second to be concerned with a future that they will NOT hold a stake in. (God forbid that instead of building elaborate golf courses or state of the art condominiums we would even consider the thought of building elaborate public housing or state of the art public schools!!) The complacency of our representatives mixed with a splash of bureaucracy is what holds Americans in the grip of the ignorance of the past. This resistance of people in power is just holding us back from taking the lead in eliminating our dependency on oil, protecting our natural resources and taking the lead to create a more unified global existence.

1st Day; Second Decade; 21st century (1/1/2010)

I have always been obsessed about keeping a blog since it was made a possibility. I think the main reason that I have not completed this seemingly easy task is my lack of typing skills & the fact that alot of my life, I would rather let go than commit to paper. Well, I'm 40 and the fact of the matter is that all of those difficult moments & experiences or perhaps my solutions, have created the woman that I have become. I have come to the conclusion that, I am not so bad and actually I am a good person that cares about living beings...most of them. ( I still have a time with crickets! ) I love myself and it's ok to document the good but we have to write about the bad as well so that there is no chance of repeating mistakes.I spent my New Year's Eve with folks that don't know me too well but welcomed me into their home anyway. Allowed me to socialize with their children & pets. I was honored and glad that I made the effort to be there. Because doesn't life and all it's wonderful gifts just require a little bit of effort? Shared in laughter, mixed spirits we welcomed the thought of a better year than the last. The truth is, every year has its ups & downs and that's just life & living it. I am bound to have some lows because without them the highs wouldn't seem as wonderful as they always are. Happy New Year & Decade!