2008

So, starting a new year , my 68 th ,there is always a feeling of worry or concern about what the year ahead will bring to oneself and all those close to us .But of course a new year or should I say , New Year , is only an arbitrary event which only exists as a marker , agreed by us humans , in what we call time and therefore this exercise of celebrating a new year could be carried out by any of us at any given day of the year , our very own individual new years day.
Anyway we have started with the usual series of bad news stories , concerning tragic events which have happened and indeed those which are expected to happen or those which may happen.
These events are broken down over , environment , politics , financial , etc.
The most notable aspect of this years news is how much of this is being devoted , under all headings , to international events.
At the moment under the heading of politics , most of the world is concerned with the preliminaries of the coming US presidential election next November , under the heading of finance the state of the global economy is being discussed 24/7 on TV and radio .
And the environment is the most discussed because it effects all other aspects of life in this world.

But despite all the looming problems the most positive thing about the year ahead is that this world of ours is getting smaller and we are starting to understand one another more and more each day , of course we still have a long , long , way to go .....but even the possibility of Barack Obama becoming the next president of the USA , as things stand at the moment , he being of mixed race , only about 60 years after Adolph Hitler shows us all that this old world is going inthe right.......Happy New Year everyone.....