The beginning of a new year...

Thoughts From A T-Views Staffer
The beginning of a new year always reminds me of a brand new notebook. I don't know about you, but I always found a new notebook so clean and inviting, like a new beginning, a new start in life, one that was going to be organized and orderly. Of course, after the first few pages, the resolve to keep that notebook neat all the way to the end wore a little thin and the pages took on that lived-in look that all things used seem to take on. But after a while, it was time for a new notebook again, and the whole resolve to do better this time was given a second chance.
When you stop to think of it, life is full of new beginnings. We come into this world with a mind full of blank pages just waiting for input. By the time we're four or five years old and feel we've adjusted to this new world of ours, we're put into the school situation, where we have to begin a new lifestyle, meet new people and learn all sorts of new things. By 8th or 9th grade, when we feel we've got it made and are at the top of the ladder, we graduate and are thrust into the new world of high school where, as freshmen, we're again at the beginning. By the time we're seniors, we're at the top again and this time we're sure we've got it made, only to find that we're back again on the bottom rung either as a freshman in college or a novice in the working world. When we feel we've reached a level of competency and confidence in our chosen field, either we change jobs or get married, and once again have to learn the ropes from the bottom. Parenthood, grandparenthood, widowhood ... on and on with new beginnings. And after this life, we'll probably begin again in a new dimension and the process will be eternal. So here's to a new year and a new beginning, without which we'd be stunted in our growth and life would be so much less challenging.
ΗΑΡΡΥ ΝΕW ΥΕΑR!
Terri the Typesetter
week of January 8, 1984