It happens every 19 years. A blue moon sighting on New Year's eve; that's a long time to go between indigo drinks. If you're out celebrating or in your jammies on the couch waiting for the Times Square ball to drop, imagine where you might be standing or reclining for the next rare occurrence. Dispensing with official lists...noteworthy reads for the year were 'City of Thieves' (a book with legs..the undisputed king of the hill) by David Benioff; 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell; 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson; and 'Unaccustomed Earth' by Jumpha Lahiri. Best musical moment: Bono and the Mick torching the stage in a duet of U2's 'Stuck in a moment You can't get out of.' Yow. Same set featured the Edge warbling a couple of up scale notes. And Fergie jamming with Mick in a smoking rendition of 'Gimme Shelter' . Double yow. The christening of this past decade as the 'oughts'(my unique spelling)...who comes up with this dribble? I reacted like Homer Simpson. OMG. I'd rather have my face idling in a large plate of donuts. Lots of glaze. Substance for awhile. And then the sugar rush.. but let's think this through for a sec..ok, maybe we 'ought' to have recalled Bush. We uh, 'ought' not to have whacked Iraq. Financial collapse 'ought' not to have happened; We 'ought' to pay more attention to global warming. Katrina survivors deserved more than 'ought.' And so it went ought and ought. As I reach for my donut, fresh and warm, from the best kept secret in Temescal, that old 'Who' refrain has re-surfaced in my head...'meet the new boss'...I hope it's not true, but as we all drop kick this last decade over the blue moon tomorrow night, indulge yourself for one more day before you invoke an 'ought.'
Very clever - the "oughts" - I'm proud to be your sister! Satchel Page said, "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you!" And too much thought about the future is not appreciating the moment. The wise tell us, to live in the present, smell the roses, be here now. This is the Year of the White Tiger.
ReplyDeleteI agree about "the oughts", it is so true about this last decade which had so many disasters. Here's the the teens being a whole lot better!
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