New Year’s Resolutions

A Different Way of Resolutions.

I wanted to make a New Year’s Resolution but a neighbor poisoned our dog, and a gunman attacked a nearby cottage and robbed it, and another neighbor had her car doors kicked in. And Obama ordered the death of 341 children in Pakistan and Yemen, enemies of the White House, so they say. And the Pope said last week that sexually violating a small child is normal. And a Rabbi forced a girl of twelve, who had been sent to him for counseling, to perform oral sex on him. And an old man in England, an organist, was beaten up and killed on his way to church.

I resolved not to hate people that poison dogs
I resolved not to hate priests that put their penises up little children
I resoved not to hate Rabbis
I resolved not to hate drone operators, or cruel men like Obama that kill children
I resolved not to hate people that murder churchmen
I resolved not to buy a gun
I resolved to dance with my friends
I resolved to heal with my hands, without charge,
whomsoever of the sick that come to me
I resolved to walk in the woods and pray to Gaia
I resolved to try to be a better person
I resolved to embrace forgiveness like never before
I resolved to remember the power of love
I resolved to continue to write these posts…

Then I remembered Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1596).

Portia said, “The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest…”

Then I resolved to go to bed a bit earlier, it’s 4.52 am here, I’ve worked twelve hours…

“And so to bed….” As the good writer of Samuel Pypes’ Dairy said at the end of each of his daily entries.
Samuel Pypes was a naval administrator that kept a diary from 1660 to1669, writing eyewitness accounts during the bubonic plague and Great the Fire of London. P.S The dog was very sick at the Vet’s hospital for three days but we got there in time and it survived. Blessed be. Stuart Wilde  www.stuartwilde.com