is this the 2nd or 3rd or nth year of a series coming up or are we
going to try something new? Are we bending over for the forces that
be and hunkering down to take our punishment or have we dusted off
that old craft we built deep in the forests of our youth and set it
back up to tack into the wind and rise above the numbing zones, the
moans and lamentations of those doing it “right”, being “realistic”,
living the life with the crooked hands they’ve been dealt, grateful
for the scraps …or do we have something up our sleeves this coming
year? A card or two under the table? Something that doesn’t depend
on the House paying cuts with its trickling odds at infrequent
intervals just to lure us deeper into illusions of debt? I hear free
men once walked these plains, once looked at these same stars we see
from our feeding pens. I hear that it doesn’t take a lifetime of
planning or preparation to make a change, that it’s just a simple
matter of stepping sideways in our lifes and running with a
different current.