Anticipation

New Year’s Eve is ripe with anticipation, what Webster defines as “the act of looking forward.”  There is, of course, some danger in looking forward as it takes my eyes and mind off now.  In this I am reminded of an exchange I had with my departed (but obviously still with me) friend Jim Mulford.  When, in late December, I started telling him of my new year’s resolutions, he simply replied: “If it is a good resolution, you ought to start doing it (or not doing it) today.”  He had/has a point.