Happy New Year!

I love New Year’s Day morning.

It is my favorite holiday morning of the year. Know why?

Cuz, it is beautifully, blessedly quiet. People have been up most of the night doing things they need to recover from. So they sleep in the next morning and it’s a beautiful silent thing and I love it!

No, children screeching up and down the street with their new bikes, skates and boards.  Their parents don't want to hear that noise this early for one. Second, the kids were probably allowed to stay up late too so the little urchins are sleeping in, too.

Most businesses and offices are closed so there are few cars racing up and down the street.  Even the sirens seem to take a break on New Year's Day morning.  Everyone has unplugged tree lights and window lights, and any other light that could cause and electrical fire.  The criminals seem invisible...for these few early moments of the new year anyway.

Death and Sickness don't hold back but they seem to slow down just a bit.  As if Death and Sickness, take a morning break in the new year to sit down and share a coffee and give humanity a break for a minute or two.  No more.

The Eve night's revelers and worshipers have all done their best and worst in saying farewell to the old year and hello to the new year.  Now there is this silence that is almost holy.

And I revel in it yearly.  In this beautiful quiet I can see the miracle that my life has been.  Indeed, the miracle that life is and the possibilities and opportunities that still abound while I yet draw breath.

It's a beautiful time.  In those first few beautiful quiet moments of the new year I actually don't mind the song What a Wonderful World.  Cuz I can actually believe its true.

Happy New Year World!