The World Is Tired Right Now

The world is tired right now.

Before I left the office yesterday, I looked down from the 8th floor and saw the Christmas carousel, now still.

Promenade trees, still wrapped in red and white lights, could be seen through the gray mist, but no children shrieked and laughed, no families celebrated.

The time for celebration of light and life in the midst of dark is over.

Now we wait.

It's that time when the old year is preparing to die ... and the new year not quite born.

We spend some time counting our sins, sins that we -- singularly and as a community -- committed this past year. War, cruelty, greed -- the world is too much with us.

And now we wait.

For a new beginning, a tabula rasa, an opportunity to do something different, something right.

Now we wait.

film still from the 2006 Russian Stalker