Another year, another outlook

We can't help but change our outlook.  Sometimes it's for the positive, sometimes it's for the pessimistic, but it always changes.  As people, the way we identify ourselves often comes into question around the new year.  At least it does for me, which is why I probably feel a twinge of anxiety when it comes to the holiday.  

It's also a time when we humans tend to label the year that went before.  That was a GREAT year, that was a HELLUVA year, I don't want to repeat THAT year, I hope ALL of my years are like that last one....

Perhaps from a more cosmic perspective, or at least this cosmic-folk-rocker's perspective, it's important for us to collectively acknowledge that we made another go of it.  Amidst all of the sufferings and triumphs, warnings and encouraging words, we went through it all again.  Together. 

This year, I resolve to default to gratitude.  Through whatever 2012 brings; be it apocalypse, wholly transformation, or a bit more of the same as last year, I will be thankful for it.  Whether I live to witness it, or learn what's beyond.  Maybe nothing, maybe everything.  

My bonus resolution is to make my own beer.