I have reached the age where it becomes necessary to at least consider the possibility that this new year could be one's last new year. That consideration seems to both make this years resolutions both more and less urgent. ONe of my resolutions this year was to sit down and write things, and this more or less neglected blog page seems a good place to keep a diary as any.
This is the year of the cyborg, so everything should be online.
So let's get to the resolutions
It seems that politically there was an upheaval this past year, that was unsuspected. (No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition). While I cannot share the utter despair of so many. (You know who you are, all of you, who wrote 3 pages on your facebook page about how you couldn't wish anyone a happy new year) I cannot see what good will come of chossing Boomer's older and more self involved than me, to MAGA, and lead us back to the promised land where factories hummed in every nook and cranny of the USA. so....
1) Live in 2017. Avoid Nostalgia
It is a sad fact that I live a very comfortable life, where I need to supply my own discomforts, by endlessly contemplating my gender issues, and doing things that I mildly regret every few days like drinking too much.
2) Avoid the Habitual
There is o question that the efficiency of my physical and mental faculties has moved off the peak. This process can only be stopped by death.
3) Boost Memory by Doing Fewer Forgetful Things
Studying Nature, Cosmos, Evolution, and of course birds birds birds The purpose of this study is to try to discern the purpose of these things. To understand my world fully. This is the topic I most want to write about in this diary. Is there a divine spirit which is discernable, and evident in the history of the universe, the history of life, my own history. If there is, then it shouldn't require a mountain, cave or monk's cell to apprehend it. That divine spirit should be all around me and within me, shouldn't it?
4) Embrace the Divine
If it is always darkest just before the dawn, then a glorious sunrise must be immanent.
