AFRICA 54 countries, 1000 languages, 797 million people. Wow! add China, the US, Europe, Asia, south America and we can have a heck of a big party.

We're born into a world, having inherited a struggle. To be, to do, to love, understand, give and receive. To articualte our challenges, and most importanly to experience. Each with a unique journey but all with the same destination.

Reading anxiety is the fear that there is too much to read in too little time. I can relate. Whenever I think that there's not enough time, I remember that Twilight Zone episode where the guy goes out of his mind after he is left alone with all the time in the world after a global calamity.

2002 is a vast improvement already since it's one of the few years you can spell backwards and still get right, which is great if you're dyslexic. I'm not dyslexic personally, but I'm often mistaken for being one when I've had a hard day at the office. Lots of magazines, web sites, and clueless people are making bold predictions as to what the new year may bring. My forecast is simply this: 2002 will either be better or worse than 2001.

We won't miss you, 2001.
Hopefully we can take tragedy and do good in the name of the innocent. 9/11 changed my perspective in so many ways, as it has for so many.

Happy New Year
To all of my family and friends that have made this holiday season so special for me, I honor you. I'm truly moved by the level of affection and care that I've received from all of you. I wish you all a very happy 2002 and the very best that life has to offer. Hi Mom!

Perhaps finally, hopefully, 2002 is the year that I get rich. Wow, what a splendid thought! ... The only problem is I've been saying that every new year's eve for as long as I can remember.

The world's oldest pastime
Interestingly, people have sex for all sorts of reasons, such as love and respect, caring, lust, attraction, curiosity, too much alcohol and the old tried and true it-just-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time. That is reality. Sometimes 'the sexual act' is 'just a physical one'. I suppose that humans are wired accordingly, so the truth of the matter becomes which direction will you choose (or have you chosen). Reality has also proven that most people prefer to sample all of the above.

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ."
Thomas Mann
quoted in "The Magic Mountain"

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We can't go where we're going unless we have been where we've been. We went and we came back heroes. The four horsemen were triumphant.