A New Year's Resurrection

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.  It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.  Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Calendar

I’ve never been one for New Year’s resolutions, at least not the sort you crow about to friends and family and write down in shopping lists to take to the supermarket. They’ve always seemed a pseudo-commitment, the sort of “well, if it works out…” type of pledge that’s doomed to fail because it starts with the theory that a new year means somehow our less enlightened and motivated former selves have been shuffled off like old skins.

The truth, of course, is that a date on the calendar means nothing vastly significant in either the outer world or our inner one. Unless, as Chesterton mentions, we give it significance. Because nothing new starts without a first time.  Or a second.  Or a third.

So I’m resurrecting this little blog with a simple goal in mind.  To use it.  For book reviews, travelogues, reminiscences, fleeting thoughts, reflection, trolling, social experimentation, and to push my fringe right-wing agenda.  Okay, so those last three are lies.  But the others…

Maybe, just maybe, this will help energize me to write a little more often.  Or not.  But either way, as Chesterton says, a man must "start afresh".