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The New Year…setting course and bearings, “Red, Right, Returning”

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by Wilson Wyatt Jr. in Happy New Year, Inspiration, Photography, The Future, Writing

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Bearings, Buoys, Destinations, Expectations, Gentle Landing, Hope, Mariner, Navigation, New Year, Red Right Return, Reflections

"Buoy Reflections" by Wilson Wyatt Jr.

“Buoy Reflections” by Wilson Wyatt Jr. – Click on image for full view.

These mariner buoys remind me of an old navigational (not political) adage, “Red, Right, Returning.”  Keep the red buoy on starboard to return safely to home port from sea. Conversely, a sailor keeps the green buoy to the right when heading out to sea.

Thinking of the year ahead is like setting a navigational marker on a journey of unknown length, along an unknown course, filled with faces new and old and events unimagined. We always have hope, the least expensive of all emotions.  We always set expectations, those curious self-imposed creations, sometimes leading us as useful guides…though often to destinations unfulfilled.

My simple wish for the new year is to be thoughtful of my bearings, where I came from, my surroundings…the people, places and events along the way…and where I am headed.  My hope, in time…a gentle landing.

Happy New Year! Ring in the new!

31 Saturday Dec 2011

Posted by Wilson Wyatt Jr. in Happy New Year, Uncategorized

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New experiences, New opportunities, New Year, Resolutions

"New Sun Rising" - Copyright 2011, Wilson Wyatt Jr

New opportunities, new chances, new experiences, forgiveness, a time to start again.  Ahh…can’t you feel the freshness of it all, as you breathe it in?

We cram in promises on this day, forgetting at least for a moment, the arbitrary nature of it.  While it may be just the first day of the year on our calendar, it is a powerful day of new beginnings.

That stack of “undone” becomes “to do.”  There’s a new timetable for my writing.  Those “incomplete” outdoor chores  begin a whole new list.  Exercise…yes, the gym and that old bike with flat tires.  Forgotten household “fixes” become “new improvements.”  It’s magic.  There is no scurrying around to remember what hasn’t  been done.  It’s over. No guilt for the forgotten.

There is only the transformation, as with pixie dust, of everything to a new calendar. Relief.  A new sense of order.  A new world awaits. Please…someone tell the politicians and Wall Street.  They might miss it.

Oh, yes, those resolutions…that’s easy.  Let’s see.  Where did I put last year’s list?

 

 

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