Remembering

The New Year's song "Auld Lang Syne" asks whether old acquaintances should be forgotten. Maybe because I'm a memoirist, I answer this in the negative. We should remember our acquaintances from way back then and from now. It's important to honor our past and our present. 

But why you ask? It's because, or at least I would argue, that our past creates our present self. We are all a matter of then and now. I am still that little girl sitting on the roof reading a book, and yes, I'm also now a writer, and a lawyer. I contain multitudes. 

As the new year of 2025 nears, however, I'm thinking that I will look more toward the future than at the past. I just took in three new baby shih tzu puppies and they're making me remember how much growth and change matters. It's everything. We can't stay little. We have to get big and strong and the best way to do that is to challenge oneself.

So this year, the challenge for me is to look up high at the clouds and reach for the rainbows and stretch my neck to see what lies right beyond the horizon. The future is coming. And it's bright.