2010

It's New Year's Eve, 2010. The start of another decade.

Yesterday I was driving to the fitness center to go to a class when I tuned into NPR. One of the byproducts of living in the Lowcountry is that you have to drive a lot. I'm not used to that. And, when I'm driving, I find I listen to the radio.

The participants on the radio show were doing a "Decade Retrospective." Gee, I was just looking back over the events that had taken place over the past year...when I am challenged to think about everything that's happened, that's touched me, in the last decade? It seemed overwhelming.

The theme of the program was "Politics: 1999-2000 and covered the following: the impeachment attempt of Bill Clinton; the 2000 election with the Florida recount; the attack on the World Trade Center; the counterattack in Afghanistan and invasion of Iraq; Huricane Katrina and finally, the election of 2004. All of these events touched me in one way or another personally, some directly, some indirectly. What a decade. Wonder what the next one will hold...