Here in Wandering Willow land, I plan to celebrate the changing of the year by re-posting my favorite writings from each month in 2006. This is especially important since my computer crashed and forced me to develop this new blog and abandon my old one.
For today, here is my look at 2006 and its various features.
WHAT I DISLIKED MOST ABOUT 2006
G. Bush and cohorts in our White House
Problem-ridden electronic voting machines still being used
All TV sitcoms and dramas depicting the popular culture of lying, deception and cruelty
PBS booting Bill Moyers out of "Now"
The politics behind the war in Iraq and media coverage thereof
The movie version of “The DaVinci Code”
The latest movie version of “The Pink Panther”
The little white jets that fly overhead leaving crosshatches of white trails that spread out and turns our blue skies gray. (Contrails don’t do that.)
Dealing with a limiting injury for an entire year
Crutches!!
Not having medical or dental insurance
The sudden death of my constant companion and coworker, Gypsy the Dog
Slowly saying goodbye to my 20-year best friend, Puff the Cat
WHAT I LIKED MOST ABOUT 2006
The rain returning to Colorado!
The song “All Will Be Well” by Gabe Dixon
My new CD of Vladimir Horowitz playing Rachmaninof
The book “The DaVinci Code”
The movie “The Secret”
The movies “Pirates of the Carribbean” “Walk the Line” and “Ray”
Internet radio version of San Francisco’s radio station KFOG
The alternative news service www.nhne.org , where I get my news from
PBS and its wonderful programs, despite its new executives
Everything ever written by Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber’s radio interview show “Integral Naked”
Finding a genuine perspective in which life on earth is completely wonderful
Visiting my family and playing with my grandbaby
Eating fresh food right from the garden
Trees, rocks, blue skies, sand, wind, water, fire in the woodstove
Healing from my injury, and starting to hike again
Writing my book at last
The discovery that using diluted peroxide as a mouthwash whitens my teeth
Realizing how many people considered my amazing and beautiful dog Gypsy to be a real personal friend of theirs, and how many people truly appreciated her
Spending Puff’s last weeks in a camaraderie celebrating our decades together
3 comments:
Happy new year Willow, may it be full of the positive and only a minimal amount of negative just as counterbalance. Warmest wishes to you and yours.
Happy New Year, my dear friend! This new energy space will be great to the both of us, I just know it. All my love.
"All TV sitcoms and dramas depicting the popular culture of lying, deception and cruelty."
I'm right there with you on that one. Your average office is filled with (dare I say it) "younger" people who actually think David Spade is a behavioral role model.
Belated Happy New Year (how's it goin' so far?)
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