Thursday, December 31, 2009

New Years Eve

This morning I headed out for a run and again I never looked at the temperature needless to say I had my camera but the temperatures have gone down to extremely low conditions. So I was planning to head out for the evening to this one place but naw it's just too cold. Up here we had this cold front that came and it's going down to -40 tonight. I have no problems with this as it's one day of many too come.  So I just see it as another day. I have never been an isolationist within my life. But I do admit this has been a year. I am not too proud to say that. But what I do know is what comes within the future and what is within the making. So I am content with that when I reviewed my blog and the last year it's been a large undertaking when I moved here. Yet I have had those times that one really does ponder the meaning of it. I could go there but it's much more of what we embrace and enjoy. To each there own. For myself when I look at this year I find that it's been one of a transformation of sorts. I have come to learn the hard way (there for it’s now not hard) as from the day that I moved here from another city, which benchmarks the time that I was back on here, to the situations that happened within my family and then my own areas - it was something that has been an ordeal. But I think past it all, certainly everyone wants something a little more but within that more I think there is that contentment that one does find within. Actually I am much more happier within my own manner now than I was just six months ago, for that matter even as I have been going all over I have learned more about this area of cadence. I would have never imagined that I would go through a period as such but one comes to gain more of a good understanding.

I think we place too much weight in holidays. Perhaps each day is a new year and a new day. But don’t get me wrong I certainly do look forward to the beginning of this New Year. In a way it's already began. So there is a large difference in being alone or in being lonely. I don't feel lonely at all not due to this blog but just within the last month I have come to realize that transformation effect. One never completely changes but we do move ahead, not due to a date within time but within our own cadence. What can be is what shall be, and that is within what I see as the true value of individuality. As there are no two people that are alike. Yet there is this thing called "herd mentality".

But within this cold weather that just came overnight I think that many are just staying home tonight the younger ones are heading out but after this morning and going for a run I was thinking of several things. It's funny how one tends to think, yet for me the best thing of all is freedom. Freedom means so many things. And within freedom there is abundance even on the coldest day. Ironically the forecast is that the day after the New Year it's going up to -9 Celsius + 32 in Fahrenheit. You can't forecast the weather but you can estimate where you are going.

I step back look at the past and then work forwards. It is what it can be and out and out with the old and in with the new.

 

30 comments:

  1. oh my ..goodness that is cold .you stay inside and keep warm ..sounds a bit like living at the North Pole..jack?we love your photos .but dont get frostbite! you can take some when the temperature rises a bit more!!....sending Happy New year wishes..Irish ones!

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  2. I kid you not it came last night and will be down to minus 40 tonight. Ironically the day after tomorrow it's going up to -9c! So it's all good, I was going to meet up with two cousins and one old friend but all have decided to just home. It's cold, and I had my camera out with me but there was no way that one could take pictures within this weather. And from over there in Ireland Happy New Years!

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  3. Happy New Year Jack, best wishes to you and the family.

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  4. ..Thankyou .!.I can hear some fireworks ..despite .our damp.weather..:)..hope all the animals .pets are ..indoors!:)

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  5. Read my mind....while I was jogging back there I saw a dog that was left in the back yard till the family arrived home - now that I almost felt like reporting to the SPCA.
    Not kidding!

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  6. Have yourself a wonderful New Years Eve Jack, no matter what you do this evening do it with smiles. All the best to you and your family.

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  7. It's true Kelly, you know over this last seven days I have met more people from different places by cab, and as well downtown yesterday I could literally chronical the discussions as they were really fine. But tonight is one cold day yet it's just one day of the beginning of good things.

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  8. Best wishes to you Parrie...And a Happy 2010!

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  9. and a very happy new year to you amigo---i do believe you are correct in knowing that every day is new and every moment brings change-----so---as you anticipate a "warm up" to 32 i am preparing for the cold to arrive tomorrow when it is predicted to drop to 32-----we share and yet we experience differently and that is amigo what connects us all ---si?

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  10. I love meeting new interesting people and they come from all walks of life

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  11. Si and a very happy new year to you as have to place a pizza in the oven! We do....

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  12. And that contentment within is what helps us keep moving forward, prevailing over the obstacles before us. Very good write Jack. I also like your line that says "there is a large difference between being alone and being lonely" In finding the contentment within, it is much easier to be alone without being lonely. And also easier to get through those moments of loneliness.

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  13. Long before the New Year here fireworks were going off over Sydney Harbor in Australia. It's been 2010 there for awhile now. May be another day yet I seem to reflect over the past year and I do have goals I would like to meet this next year. One I want to get out more with the children all grown if not a part time job some other means of being active in the community . I did Nursing Home Volunteer for about 9 years , maybe something different

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  14. Something I'm not sure what I still want to keep in contact with people. It's nice to reach outside of myself..I need a challenge

    My typing is a challenge I had to edit this more than once :) I keep hitting the wrong keys

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  15. yep, out with the old and in with the new! woohoo! Happy New Year!

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  16. the past gives us memories the future gives us hope~happy new year
    dp

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  17. wishing you a wonderful new year! let the transformations begin! and here's hoping it warms up soon as well! hugs!

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  18. There is a large difference within it GG. As I am not but to prevail, I feel is something that I do and I have during this year.

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  19. Yeah this is a day of many to come, and for myself, I do wish to now move on within my own area and I have to slowly go forward and not backwards with family. As I find that it can be something that does pull you away from your own areas. Had a half brother call me from British Colombia and I feel that I wish to get back yet go forward within the scope of where I have been educated and trained. I know one friend that spent nearly all his life handling all the family matters and he never really knew what life was. As he never had the option to move forward. I see this new year as one already in motion. Yesterday during the day I was talking with a professor the comes from Germany he is now retired and he was telling me his life story. He lived a full life. Note this is a new picture of me just thinking :) Gotcha....

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  20. Oh my typing is a challenge as well, but yet are they really the wrong key?

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  21. It's is.....it's like a "spring cleaning if you will - you look back reflect and then look at the presant and then think forwards.

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  22. Happy New Year many subscribe to not looking within the past but I believe that we do learn from it yet we don't fixate on it.
    In some ways before I wished to go back to NY but to be completely honest I am glad where I am - more so when winter is a warm one
    especially on a day like this!

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  23. It's right on my blog Arielle the day after tomorrow it's back up to more normal tempertures. A great new year to you as well.

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  24. sounds liked you'll be having a tremendous makeover ... wishing you luck then Jack ...

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  25. I think we all do, not just for the new years but within what we deem as fit.

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  26. I totally agree. We are staying inside tonight too. It is not as cold here, as over there on the prairies. I like being alone too. As long as it doesn't go on for too long.

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  27. Karyn this is the coldest day thus far.

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  28. I am looking forward to 2010...I need change and adventure!
    Happy New Year to you, Jack!

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