A Year of Living Wondrously

[Mark David Gerson]

"There's a scene in my novel The MoonQuest where the main character, upset by a vision of the slaying of loved ones from his past, is told to look ahead not backward.

"It seems a thoughtless, almost cruel injunction. But when we find ourselves at the intersection of Old and New, the only way to honor what has passed is to move forward, even as our natural tendency is to want to reach back.

"After all, we gain our grounding from the past. It was in and through the past that we learned how to be in the present. How often have we been warned not to ignore the lessons of history?

"And yet as we edge more deeply into 2008, it's increasingly clear that the past can no longer serve as an adequate or effective guide to what's ahead."

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Regardless, have a Happy New Year. And may it be a year of living wondrously!

Namaste,
Mark David