I didn’t realize that this wonderful document could be found online. It’s an interesting read at any time (and sometimes a little disturbing…), but at the year’s turn, as the Sun starts slowly making its way back, somehow Balthasar’s maxims seem more interesting to me than usual — invoking thoughts of what went wrong this past year, hopes of what might be made to go right instead in the year to come…
We’re on our way down to our favorite of the two little pubs in the nearest village, with a double recipe of Miss Norma’s killer eggnog in tow, to see the New Year in with our neighbors. To all of you who read this (and those of you who don’t. If a blessing falls in a forest and there’s no one to hear it, is it still a blessing?…), our heartfelt wishes for a good 2003.
