The news, that is. Lately, I've realized that what I'm missing most in my life is hope..... a la Wiki: a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. The conundrum at this stage of the game is that all the major passages of life are behind you with the exception of death, and that most of what is bright and challenging and new belongs to the generation in the prime of life, aka, not you.
My time with my Dad has brought home to me the vagaries of age, how most of us don't die overnight but in small dribs and drabs every day, the same way in which we advanced to the peak of our power and wisdom. I find it difficult to have hope when what's in my sights is death and decay and the realization that the best years of my life are gone, and compliments of the daily news, the best years of Planet Earth along with them.
So my quest in 2010, Year of the Monkey Smackdown, is to figure out a way to put hope back in my life. Paul Krugman has suggested that we refer to this past decade as The Big Zero, and I'm inclined to agree. Maybe the next decade will turn out to be The One. I hope so.
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