Another Year Begins

Rambo John

Another year has begun.  Watch out!  In some ways, it has started quietly with light traffic on Bangkok roads as we await the return of all our residents gone away for the holidays and with cooler weather due to a storm or two.

The New Year was fun.  If you can't beat them, join them.  So I got my weapon of choice and went out dressed in shorts and t-shirt ready to play water with everyone else.  It was fun but I just wish that they would not use such cold water.

Water is the key symbol for the season and it is used in both dignified ways and outrageous ways to give a blessing and to have fun.  Sometimes it is over the top in the water throwing field but generally people just enjoy.

A person I know through my work with Caritas made her comment from Italy.  Wouldn't it would be good if we had out our fights using water pistols instead of lethal weapons?  That may seem simplistic but I thought that a rather smart insight.  In this innocent comment shared may lie a message for the new year - act in simple ways for peace.  There may be another message that tells us wisdom is found in the simplest of ways.  Wisdom is not rocket science and is not confined to the realm of some assigned elite.  Wisdom is ours.  Get in touch with our wisdom and follow it.