Histbuffer here. I truly hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to a great New Years! Well, without too many political ramifications. inflation and gas prices, for starters as we know those realities are too capable of taking away the fun from holidays. Sorry, I brought it up.
It is claimed (www.almanac.com for example) that New Year's resolutions began back with the ancient Babylonians during the vernal equinox, around March 25th one would suppose, when the mostly agricultural society would be expected to give back borrowed farm implements and were encouraged in making grand promises to pay back debts. Their New Year was eventually adopted by the Romans; what wasn't, eh? Then, when the calendars were changed the date was shifted to January first for the New Year and its celebrations. These varied over different cultures.
Resloutions in the old days in America were more connected with moral and spiritual issues though these began to change over time to - getting a better job, a nicer vacation, not letting certain problems get to you too much, saving for college, drinking less, lose weight...I could go on and on, but I think the point has been made.
It's really all about one's intentions and setting proper goals in the steps to getting there successfully. Sure sounds simple.
I, on the other hand, have been meaning to write more blog posts, for one thing.
I can blame the weather, a health situation here or there, even keeping too busy though I am a year into my retirement. Another real thing has been the price of traveling to sites while, since I didn't get that new printer/scanner that is needed for uploading photos here, and some of these are old ones and need to be FOUND again as well. RESOLUTION time! Early in 2023, get together the bucks for achieving that important little goal. And a new software for making good videos and DVD's, though maybe an outmoded application, and sometime soon buy some...O K, you understand.
Ideas I still have when the creativity strikes me, in fact, there are new and older plans for articles and they just don't write themselves. There is one concerned with a place far afield from these parts, in a place in Philadelphia. I won't go further, this is a meaningful historical report that should be brought to the public. I promise to get these ideas on here soon! There, I said it, so no excuses, right?
As an aside, as a kind of quest among the busy activities we all partake in so often within this amazing year while it winds to a sad but necessary close, my promise to myself was to get another post online by New Years Eve, if not sooner. And here we are so quickly it can make my head spin.
First, learn how to use a few items that were sort of interesting, kind of involved, Christmas gifts,. Oh, and get my blood work, a thorny familial issue to be solved, finish with Snap forms, work on better SEO since my blog was sabotaged, take down the decorations and rid up by Epiphany, (there's another holiday for a future post! ?), wash the car...and then, by God, I'll Get On It.
While those of you folks who have followed this blog and those who more recently discovered a regional post you found entertaining, await some new bits of traditional information from "Fayette/Westmoreland Forgotten History" worthy of spending a portion of quality moments reading up on, my advice is try to do your best in life, ignore a lot of stuff that isn't worthy of losing sleep on and pay closer attention to the wonders of our world; expend some degree of energy on the deeper things dear to the heart.
And, as always I sincerely
WISH you and yours, in 2023, the completion of your goals, and -
A very, very HAPPY and, yes, prosperous NEW YEAR! 😄
