No one knows what the new year will bring, but we always wish for happiness.  The Romans named the month “January” after the god Janus, who looked both forward and back.  I don’t remember, did he have two heads?  I think so.  It’s the time to evaluate the past year and make plans, hopes, dreams, resolutions, for the next year.  I hope to have a peaceful, quiet year staying home.  Perhaps others will travel to visit us this year.  I hope to have a productive garden.  I hope to improve my life by getting hearing aids, but they are quite expensive.  I’ve seen that we could make another trip to China just for tourism and stay a few weeks, for less than the cost of these hearing instruments.  It’s a perspective that invites the question, so popular in our ESL texts, “Would you rather…?”  I also hope to improve my life by having cataract surgery.  This will not cost much, since insurance will pay for it.  I hope to write more, more often, and I hope to finish a writing project and attempt to sell it.

Those are my thoughts for today, January 1, 2016.  What are yours?