A New Year Of Change

Happy New Year!!! Things are getting back to normal here. Holidays are over, our Grandson has returned to Fl, and school has started back.
The new year is a man made mark of time, along a never ending steady stream, which has as a reality only a split second of time. The rest is either the past or the future. At any moment in that steady stream we can depart from our norm and set a different path for ourselves. But we choose the new year most often as a time to change through the many resolutions we make.
Normally, for me, the New Year means little, because of the fact that nothing is different. Time just keeps moving along that steady stream. This year, however, I look to 2009 for some real change. Needed change.
I can't remember a time when Politics, Wall Street, Main Street, and the world have been so inter-connected and inter-dependent. One man is the hope of most of us to lead us out of the deep quagmire we entered in 2008. Obama will start meeting that challenge Jan. 20th.
I for one will back his efforts with words of support and will give him the benefit of the doubt even when I might question some decisions. I think we all should get behind him and support him any way we can. Who would want his job? He worked hard for it and won it pulling away, against all odds. Let's hope he will lead us in the same way, solving many of our problems, against all odds.
Instead of marking time by a new year, I'm marking time from Jan 20th. expecting a real departure from the norm exemplified by 2008.