Letters to the Moon....

Another year has come and gone, much to my delight. I feel different this year. I feel recharged and renewed, as if the slate has been wiped clean. We all get a fresh new start. In reading about this new year, I’ve found some fascinating things. Nine years ago, I wrote about Chinese New Year, also referred to as Lunar New Year. Every year has an animal assigned to it, according to the Chinese zodiac. https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2015/02/chinese-new-year.html Since writing about Lunar New Year, I’ve paid special attention to the animals of the years, noting the different animals and their meaning. I’ve also researched how the animal of the year of my birth related to the animal of the new year, to learn what a coming year might have in store. Last year was the year of the Rabbit. The animal for this Lunar New Year is the Dragon. In doing research on the year of the dragon, I learned that it should prove to be a successful year. The website Chinese Zodiac wrote:   “The Dragon...

I  cannot tell you how good it felt to start the New Year. It felt like the exhalation of a breath I’d been holding for months. It was the turning of a new leaf, a starting over, the turning of a page. A clean slate.   The end of last year was so hard for me. There were times when I didn’t know if I’d make it through. I knew things would change with the coming year. I looked forward to it with every fiber of my being. My mindset going into the New Year was that I was ready for change. I was open for the lessons and opportunities that lay ahead. On New Years Day, 12:01am, my neighborhood reverberated with sounds of celebratory gunfire that rang through the air. Neighbors in my building blew noise makers and horns in celebration. My cats, Jazz and Blues, were unnerved by the strange sounds that they’d never heard before. It was as if they thought there to be a herd of elephants in the hallway. The cats were more scared of the noise makers and horns than the gunfire.   Since...