ATTENTION: BALL DROPPERS Between the exact day called "Christmas" and the official first day of the New Year you can experience some odd days which seem to be disorganized, out of sync as a brand new year looms ahead - one the Chinese are going to call "The Year of the Boar. We toss that bit of time information in especially for our trivia fans who are also. along with us, are awaiting the coming demands a brand new, set of hours, days, weeks,months a whole year in length.
Once more, I hear, the City of New York has plans to herald the arrival of the opening moments of the New Year of 2007, as they lower a beaming ball of light from on high to ground level.They are, again, going lower the brightly beaming star-like of light to ground where few can see it!
This gives me my annual opportunity to rail senselessly again at the authorities who conceived and act it all out with sober intent by dropping the ball...lowering it slowly and painfully to a point where few celebrants can see it and many can forget it ever shone on high! There is good reason ,it seems, for the Chinese to foresee a year that will be boring.
New Yorkers! That ball should be an apple! That apple should be colorful, with a generous touch of gold and bright glitter! It should rise upward into the sky - as New York's finest space! Upward always! It should appear as a rising, far-seeing symbol of the city and of the dreams and plans of its citizens - America's plans and dreams, as bellwether should be vieing with the brighest of natural heavenly lights, rising into the sky as a token of promised mutual growth, advancing Hope, excitement, endearments, and heartfelt concern for all Mankind!
One more thing! Don't leave the rest of us out!
As the gleaming symbol of certainty rises to its highest point and holds firm, fire off a simple fireworks display behind it with the city itself as a background. Keep it simple: one bright star for each state and one for the District of Columbia - as another prime symbol of our pledge of unity.
Andrew McCaskey Sr amccsr@adelphia.net 12-27-06 [c385wds]
