New Year’s Blessings

Last year was Year of the Accordion…for me, anyway. Who am I fooling? Every year is the year of the accordion.

But 2024 is going to be different from every other year. I’m not sure why yet. It just will be.

Here’s to the best year, upcoming, starting tomorrow!

Yes, the world might be crazy. Wars and bad weather and drug addicts are devastating, disturbing, and heartbreaking (respectively). But my hope for the future is in God. Whatever happens, he is with me. The Good Shepherd is guiding me.

Roswell, NM is, for unknown reasons, the pasture Jesus led me to almost nine years ago. I’m just as confused as you are.

But I repeat: here’s to the best year, starting tomorrow!!

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And here is my New Year song, and what I had to say about it on YouTube:

I always take a New Year song that is supposed to inspire me throughout the coming year. It used to be whatever was playing on the radio when midnight rolled over. Now, it’s whatever pops up first on my feed. This was it. A ridiculously romantic song by Los Dos Carnales y Los Farmerz. I made a joke about King Solomon sending his hundreds of wives flowers to keep them happy in today’s video. That was after claiming the Song of Solomon was not even remotely romantic because there’s no way one man can make hundreds of wives feel loved. This song flips my idea around: “Tuve que reflexionar compraré mil rosas / Y un ramo buchón con billetes y toda la cosa / Hacerte feliz me importa…” I guess irony will be my inspiration for the coming year. This could get interesting.