I take this moment to look back over
2016…
I focus only on the blessings…
The miracles both small and grand
Wrought by Some Great Mystery…
Like the miracle of this view…
Twenty stories above the Hutchinson River and Long Island Sound…
A $12,000-a-month vista if viewed from a Manhattan High-Rise…
Instead of from a bedroom window in the “Boogie-Down Bronx…”
View from My Window: Hutchinson River & Long Island Sound/Photo by Toni Roberts
And the miracle of this spacious…palatial apartment
That has been totally renovated
Over the past two months…
Right down to the hardwood floors…
And brand new kitchen
Whose countertops may be fake granite…but HELL…
The entire apartment makeover was
FREE OF CHARGE…
And so…
I bid adieu to the pain of yesterday…
As I leave my Dearly Departed in peace…
And turn my vision forward on this mysterious journey
Called human life on planet earth…
A journey filled as much with pain…uncertainty…and confusion…
As it is with inexplicable joy and unasked for
Gifts of The Spirit!
Adios…
2016!
Y muy bienvenido…
2017!