Happy New Year, everyone!

In my small world a lot has happened in 2008.  This year we have accomplished a lot of construction.  Jerry built an addition to the house that I sit in now. A new pantry is almost finished, and renovations to the house in Manley Hot Springs, AK were mostly done this summer.  I started a blog.  Fluffy, my daughter’s poodle, came to live with us (temporarily) and keeps Daisy, the other poodle, happy.  Gwen, a good island friend, moved to Alaska.  I started painting again.  I learned to play Mah Jongg.    

The coming year will bring some fascinating changes in the wider world.  Gone will be Bush and his henchmen.  Gone, I hope, their philosophy of greed, paranoia and superstition.

Will things change a lot with Obama?  Oh, I hope so.  Will this country be able to turn away from the frenzied consumerism that has increasingly pervaded it, and look more to its people and communities? I hope so.  That’s my wish for 2009.