Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Monday, 2026.03.30 
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe
livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers
legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see
how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to
all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his
salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any
other man. But it's lovely work if you can stomach it.

		Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"

2006.01.01

A New Year

Putting 2005 behind me, that’s a good thing. A new year. There is an implicit forgiveness about a new year. A resetting of life that allows us a new beginning to an existing life. That is, if we have the courage to seize the opportunity and act “as if” we have it all to do again. When we turn the calendar, its January again. We have had January’s in the past which makes us feel like we’ve been here before, yet hopefully with a bit more wisdom and insight. The seasons hold a built-in opportunity to do January again, only different. And by extension, an opportunity to do all the other months again, only different. Hopefully, better.

Happy new year and carpe diem everyone.

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