Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? Well...
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:54 am
Well, here it is again...the new year! 
That dropping ball on Times Square seems a to be fitting metaphor for the way that we, as a city, and as a nation, seem to have dropped the ball with so many aspects of the American Dream lately.
Welcome to 2009, ready or not.
And, I suspect, we are not.
Got those New Year's resolutions typed up, double-spaced and ready?
Got that bathroom scale oiled up? Jumped on it once to get that dreaded baseline, (or was that "waistline"?) so that you can start thinking about unclogging those pesky arteries and deflating that rubber tire around your midriff?
You'll need that schoolchild figure, so that you can start lugging those newly proposed Lakewood garbage dumpsters over the river and through the woods from your crib to your curb.
Got all those receipts all together for the taxman? All ready to show how badly 2008 wiped you out?
Whassamatta? Can't quite get yourself together? Don't cry.
You're not alone. Those new year's blues hit lots of people. You know the reports about all those various wintertime depression-inducing conditions, ranging from sunlight deprivation to cabin fever.
Of course, here in Lakewood, we are probably better off than our neighbors to the southern and eastern parts of Cuyahoga county, where the snow belt reigns supreme. We often-times measure our own snowfall in inches, while those other surburbanites may end up wondering which snowdrift their cars are buried under!
Let's face it. We've still got a few dark and blustery months ahead of us until it's daffodil time. More or less, each season spans about 90 days in length, and of course, they never quite fit into those neatly wrapped seasonal packages. Fall weather sometimes previews wintertime, and winter weather can extend well into springtime. Funny though, around here, I never seem to remember springlike or summer weather intruding too much into winter's schedule...
Some of us will stretch out under sunlamps, while others will cuddle up next to a roaring fire. Some strong hearts will hit the slopes with their skis and snowboards, while the kids take a zip or two down one of the area toboggan slides. By now, the snow removal contracts have been signed and those snowblowers are all reconditioned and ready.
The question is, are we?
I think that banjo of mine might be in a block of ice out in the backyard somewhere...
Happy New Year, ready or not!
That dropping ball on Times Square seems a to be fitting metaphor for the way that we, as a city, and as a nation, seem to have dropped the ball with so many aspects of the American Dream lately.
Welcome to 2009, ready or not.
And, I suspect, we are not.
Got those New Year's resolutions typed up, double-spaced and ready?
Got that bathroom scale oiled up? Jumped on it once to get that dreaded baseline, (or was that "waistline"?) so that you can start thinking about unclogging those pesky arteries and deflating that rubber tire around your midriff?
You'll need that schoolchild figure, so that you can start lugging those newly proposed Lakewood garbage dumpsters over the river and through the woods from your crib to your curb.
Got all those receipts all together for the taxman? All ready to show how badly 2008 wiped you out?
Whassamatta? Can't quite get yourself together? Don't cry.
You're not alone. Those new year's blues hit lots of people. You know the reports about all those various wintertime depression-inducing conditions, ranging from sunlight deprivation to cabin fever.
Of course, here in Lakewood, we are probably better off than our neighbors to the southern and eastern parts of Cuyahoga county, where the snow belt reigns supreme. We often-times measure our own snowfall in inches, while those other surburbanites may end up wondering which snowdrift their cars are buried under!
Let's face it. We've still got a few dark and blustery months ahead of us until it's daffodil time. More or less, each season spans about 90 days in length, and of course, they never quite fit into those neatly wrapped seasonal packages. Fall weather sometimes previews wintertime, and winter weather can extend well into springtime. Funny though, around here, I never seem to remember springlike or summer weather intruding too much into winter's schedule...
Some of us will stretch out under sunlamps, while others will cuddle up next to a roaring fire. Some strong hearts will hit the slopes with their skis and snowboards, while the kids take a zip or two down one of the area toboggan slides. By now, the snow removal contracts have been signed and those snowblowers are all reconditioned and ready.
The question is, are we?
I think that banjo of mine might be in a block of ice out in the backyard somewhere...
Happy New Year, ready or not!
