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2007 has been a rather overly eventful year. So often I hear that melancholy lyric from the Beatles run through my head: "I heard the news today, oh boy…."
This year has seen marital strife, crying fights, Mr. C losing his coherence, Sensei’s died, chocolate opiates for eulogy composition, running triathlon escapes from life, leaving ‘home’ away from my ACMHS family, resign, start my new role, 6 new interns, my client getting shot at, mom works for a fascist company, I can’t pay her insurance fees, crying friends who can’t conceive, oil spill in Monterey, oil spill in SF Bay, friends’ divorces, Grandma’s died, Daddy’s tired voice, Uncle died, rush mom to Taipei, cousin crying, cousin acting out,teenage murder in my city last friday night…
As I wrote in some of our holiday cards: May 2008 be saner and more peaceful for us all. As of last month I think I was ready, practically pleading with the universe to start new. Magical thinking, I know. I hope this isn’t a harbinger of a slow and steady decline until 2012 when the Mayans said we’re all toast anyways. If we must go so soon, I’d rather enjoy myself and be as productive and loving as possible until that point.
Granted this year brought many wonderful things as well, such as our new baby niece, my office spouses’ pregnancy, new and wonderful private practice clients, a fantastically beautiful sojourn to Nicaragua, sunny swims in Quarry lake and L.A. visits with friends, love finding my Sweetheart, an east coast girls’ trip,a lot of hard earned growth in the marital arena, my best amiga and her beautiful child moving closer to our house…
But the world seems to spin ever nuttier. When we were little in Daly City, my very favorite outing was the SF zoo. They’d feed the lions and tigers and you could watch as they scarfed down big meat steaks sprinkled with vitamin or bone powder. The roars echoed through the big cat house in a way that rumbled and penetrated through your chest like the booming drums at the Chinese New Year parades. It was thrilling, they were so beautiful and powerful, and I (probably overly) identified with the tigers who are my zodiac sign.
Yesterday we woke up to the news that Tatiana the tigress had mysteriously gotten out and killed a man, and damn near took out 2 others. WTF?! I’ve dragged P to jungles and zoos from Belize to Argentina to San Diego and of course Oakland. "That’s it, no more zoos!" he declared. What a freak Christmas tragedy, for the young men, for Tatiana, for the zoo, for the victim’s families.
Last night I started packing my bags for Asia. 1st order of business once we arrive is to pay our respects to my recently departed relatives. It will be a strange trip to have us in Taiwan without Uncle Pei there to insist we take some spending money, to tease us about bringing home a baby soon, to ask about my brother.
This morning the alarm radio went off yet again. "Benazir Bhutto has been assasinated." P and I both suddenly lucid, ‘WHAT!!?"!? The former prime minister, and at least 20 of her supporters, were taken out in the most cowardly of fashions at a political rally. So much for the democratic process.
From MSN .com:
In
an interview on Oct. 22 with NBC’s TODAY show, Bhutto said returning to
Pakistan and politics was worth the risk to her life. “It was no secret
to me that I could be attacked,” she said. “I chose to return and put
my life on the line to defend a principle I believe in.”
Sarah’s version of the John Lennon tune: War is Over, Happy Christmas (withthe Chldren’s choir)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDZSClcEnwA
So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let’s stop all the fight
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now…
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