The Mid-Holidays Blues
Hi Everyone,
Hope you had the Christmas/Hanukkah, and any other holiday celebration that you desired. There certainly are many choices and experiences you could have had, so I hope you enjoyed the ones you made.
I spent much of the last week in solitude .. working on the final chapters, edits and rewrites of my book (which will hopefully be out by end January.) And, in between going crazy at the computer, I went to movies. I've seen many of the blockbusters and enjoyed them.
In fact, let me recommend: Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Benjamin Button. Fine, compelling movies. There are many academy award nominees here and the choices will be tough to make. Some of the finest movie-making releases in quite some time... at least in my estimation.
So, we've completed one holiday and there's another to come. The heralded New Year celebration is upon us. I wanted to crawl under the blanket and avoid it... for two reasons: 1) I have no man in my life to kiss at midnight of new year's eve and 2) My birthday is New Year's Day and I'm turning 63 and it feels really old.
I have many girlfriends, but they have parties, families and plans lined up ... except for one and we finally made a plan to do something that night. WE're going to see a special NYE edition of the Best of Gilbert and Sullivan. Should be fun... it'll be over at 11:00, so lots of time to get home, turn on the TV for the ball dropping OR brave into a local bar, hoping it's not just filled with happy couples, and toasting in the NY as friends and with whomever might be watching TV at the time.
Then, finally, we'll be on to the new year and hopefully my spirits will perk up.
2008 has been challenging to me personally, but also to all of us collectively. If we have any money socked away, we've seen it collapse, dwindle, disappear -- might as well call a blanket a blanket ... it's true. Many of us have lost jobs or if we're freelancers, seen our opportunities go down. There's lots of fear swirling and who knows when it will end.
Does 2009 call for a prettier future? Who knows. I do know that our new President carries much hope for a new future. Those that didn't support him have their doubts about that ... but overall, after the past 8 years, the dreadful shape we're in .. the idea of new blood and youth and vitality seem to be carrying that glimmer of a better future. Time, of course, will tell. Would anyone want to be Obama right now? Not I, for all the tea in China.
So, baby boomers ... let's cheer on 2009 as our best year yet. Let's celebrate, dance, sing, and explode with fun and happiness.
From me to you ...onward and upward!!
Hope you had the Christmas/Hanukkah, and any other holiday celebration that you desired. There certainly are many choices and experiences you could have had, so I hope you enjoyed the ones you made.
I spent much of the last week in solitude .. working on the final chapters, edits and rewrites of my book (which will hopefully be out by end January.) And, in between going crazy at the computer, I went to movies. I've seen many of the blockbusters and enjoyed them.
In fact, let me recommend: Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Benjamin Button. Fine, compelling movies. There are many academy award nominees here and the choices will be tough to make. Some of the finest movie-making releases in quite some time... at least in my estimation.
So, we've completed one holiday and there's another to come. The heralded New Year celebration is upon us. I wanted to crawl under the blanket and avoid it... for two reasons: 1) I have no man in my life to kiss at midnight of new year's eve and 2) My birthday is New Year's Day and I'm turning 63 and it feels really old.
I have many girlfriends, but they have parties, families and plans lined up ... except for one and we finally made a plan to do something that night. WE're going to see a special NYE edition of the Best of Gilbert and Sullivan. Should be fun... it'll be over at 11:00, so lots of time to get home, turn on the TV for the ball dropping OR brave into a local bar, hoping it's not just filled with happy couples, and toasting in the NY as friends and with whomever might be watching TV at the time.
Then, finally, we'll be on to the new year and hopefully my spirits will perk up.
2008 has been challenging to me personally, but also to all of us collectively. If we have any money socked away, we've seen it collapse, dwindle, disappear -- might as well call a blanket a blanket ... it's true. Many of us have lost jobs or if we're freelancers, seen our opportunities go down. There's lots of fear swirling and who knows when it will end.
Does 2009 call for a prettier future? Who knows. I do know that our new President carries much hope for a new future. Those that didn't support him have their doubts about that ... but overall, after the past 8 years, the dreadful shape we're in .. the idea of new blood and youth and vitality seem to be carrying that glimmer of a better future. Time, of course, will tell. Would anyone want to be Obama right now? Not I, for all the tea in China.
So, baby boomers ... let's cheer on 2009 as our best year yet. Let's celebrate, dance, sing, and explode with fun and happiness.
From me to you ...onward and upward!!
Labels: BAby boomers, hope, new year's celebration
posted by Ann Fry, Head Boomer at
12:52 PM
1 Comments:
Baby Boomers (and our parents) are the reason we're in the mess we're in today. Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of the "hope" of the 1960s and became a self-absorbed all about me generation. Look at Wall Street and many other Corporations who now want a hand-out. Who was leading them? Baby boomer men who had total disregard for the average consumer and ran recklessly amuck while nobody said a word.
Now President Elect Obama must come in and do his best to straighten out a MESS that he had nothing to do with creating.
He'll either be the greatest president who ever lived or be the scapegoat for the mess Bush and the good old boys left behind.
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