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1. Boris
   Friday, January 1 10:09 am

   True that when holiday greetings are falling like rain, you start feeling drenched, then discomforted — and then resigned to going about your business again. Family and friends persist in dropping their good wishes on you regardless of reception, trusting that you can find your umbrella and put the spin on their each cliché. I once had an ex-lover who always remembered my birthday and our Christmases together — and she’d wish me plenty of luck and happiness each year, as if her hand still steered my joy, like all she wanted me to feel about what was implicated in our break-up was the next new happiest year each time it came around. But lighten up, you say.

   Sometimes he says he just wishes he could stop all time from moving on and lean back lightly against the clock walk away and detonate the hands and know the start of it all and hearing nothing seeing nothing only then remember more clearly the first several thousand teardrops that went on and changed so many lives…

   Although you could also be remembering that the next best reason you don’t get much sleep is because you’re chasing intriguing ideas and you don’t really want to let them go. You’ll be thinking that her beautiful expressionless Buddha face is more appreciable and accessible the longer you consider looking deeper into her eyes. You’ll reconsider that laughter is a far better corrective to folly than being angry at it. You’ll feel like cutting down the smirking or the smoking or the drinking, none of which you ever believed didn’t provide you with a slightly better frame of mind.

   Let us agree that the reconstitution of a feeble will and a dimming mind-set is the most cursèd of New Year’s resolutions. Let us know that the game will just continue. But let us agree that for slightly more fun, slightly more effort is required. Are your tiny resolutions of destiny really so different? Trimming your personal horticulture, minding the verges, watching for the approving gaze of neighbors you don’t know? Resolve instead to be you — if that has ever been overdue. Even Simon says that’s better.

   Happy New Year

   Boris K.

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