I look for fresh starts throughout the year, so when I'm handed one as obvious as New Year's Day I'd rather downplay the thing. It's hard to this year, however, with such a splendid date to contemplate — this string of ones, nice tidy digits, straight arrows pointing us toward the future.
And that's what today is about, of course — the future, moving ahead whether we're ready to or not. Moving ahead with optimism and purpose, with a list of resolutions tattered from folding and unfolding, one we drag out every year and check off an item or two a year if we're lucky.