There is nothing really different about this day other than the connotations we put upon it. We choose to run a calendar around January to January. We chose months, weeks, days, hours and minutes. We created them all. We made them up. They are not real. The product of our imagination and need for order.

In reality the days are just rotations of the earth around its axis.

The years are just the time it takes for the planet to circle the sun.

Months, weeks, hours and minutes are arbitrary and concocted for our convenience – mainly religious practice.

We make it all up!

Each day is a new day! Each is worthy of celebration!

We are alive!

The universe is a wondrous place!

We are on a 4000 week holiday in reality. That’s all we have. Make the most of every day, every second!

However, have you stopped to think about why we have started the year on January 1st? Doesn’t really make any sense! We should have started the year on the solstice really, shouldn’t we? All to do with agricultural cycles and the Romans – bloody stupid and arbitrary. The solstice makes much more sense.

Anyway, we chose to adopt this idea and have to run with it.

I think it is psychologically good to have an end and a new beginning – an opportunity for reflection and adapting – setting new goals. It’s good to have a new start.

The older I get the quicker these cycles come round. Cherish them all. They don’t last forever. I wish you all a fulfilling and fruitful year!

Now – go and buy all my books – it’s 2026 (another arbitrary date) – time to try something new and enjoy the tales of Opher Goodwin and Ron Forsythe. His imagination pervades the world.

The universe is a never-ending tale of all possibility.

Today’s as good a time as any to make a new start!