The Pecan Park Eagle

Happy New Year, 2014!

The Pecan Park Eagle wishes all of you the best, happiest, safest, spiritually settling New Years of all time. Since we already wrote the best column on our personal historical experience with the American New Year celebration several years ago, here it is again, if you’re interested:

https://thepecanparkeagle.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/new-years-eve-icons/

As for now, 2014, I simply want to express the wishes I hold for all of us a little more specifically:

1) May we all continue to grow in our understanding of Shakespeare’s immortal words: “To thine own self be true.”

2) May we continue to look for ways to serve, rather than be served.

3) May we continue to search for ways of commerce and life that expand hope and opportunity for all those who are willing to work in behalf of their own successes, and not leave us on the bleak shores of either having to settle for the welfare state, on the one hand, or the  empire state on the other, that is, the one in which the privileged few controllers of everything get rich on the backs of all the rest of us.

4) May we grow in our understanding of who we are in relation to the almighty universal force that created us – and reach peace in our embrace of the realization that grows from that journey within us – that  “God” is “Love”.

5) May we always understand that rules and laws are created to protect the basic rights and freedoms of us all. No one else, however, no church or religious dogma, no priest, no preacher, or no rabbi can make the choice for or against the belief in anything for us. To hear and learn from others, ministers or not, we must first become seekers of truth in our own rights, and begin the journey in a faith that may only grow stronger from our openness to learning from the loss, disappointment, and pain of personal experience on the trail of life’s unfolding discovery.

6) Life’s lessons are a lot like learning to field ground balls. There’s not much problem with practice grounders, at first. As long as you get in front of the ball, get your glove down, and prepare to stop the ball with your body, if necessary, and, if the bounce of the ball is true – and not coming at you too fast. But then come the lessons of game play. – Balls come screaming at you, on uneven bounces, sometimes with either side English on them, you freeze in shock, you fail to get your glove down, you don’t have time to body cover. and – the ball rushes through you, or by you, for a hit or an embarrassing error on YOU. – We learn and, hopefully, over time, we get better. – We never get perfect. – Only the greats of the ground ball stopper game – and the narcissists too young to know better – are left to think that perfection is going to happen. As in general life, we can all do better at anything, once we learn something that’s important to the performance of a specific task. And that awareness is the realization that teaches us – not perfectionism.

That’s it. Forgive me if I bored you. Older writers sometimes want to share what they think they’ve learned, whether anyone else wants to hear it – or not. I don’t expect you to hear me, unless these words make sense to you. All I can tell you for sure is – I don’t know nearly enough. I get lost every time I try thinking about what was going on prior to either Genesis or The Big Bang.

Happy 2014, folks. And remember that “now” is the only time we actually have. Live it fully. We cannot capture what is yet to be with our promises about the future. We cannot regain what might have been with our regrets about the past. Now is the only time field we really have – but it comes to us with the breath of life itself.

Love and Peace. To One and All.

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