2008! It's Gonna To Be Great!

Happy New Year from Nelson & Nelson Antiques!

I was propped up in my reading chair last night with a steaming mug of Awake tea and the full intention of greeting the New Year but as per usual my chin hit my chest sometime before midnight. Call it a tradition.

I can now recall only parts of a long dream that took place primarily in a chandeliered ballroom where masquerading guests loomed and purled like apparitions reflected in the textured surface of Gorham’s Martelé hollowware.

I awoke in a sweat to a brightly lit apartment and a dizzying loop from Bartok’s String Quartet #4. I rose from my chair and stretched, then crossed the room and pulled the needle off the record. Scamper Bill squinted at me with a measure of derision and yawned. A melancholy sigh from the steam radiator punctuated my decision to retire. I had already kicked off my slippers and removed my cardigan when I was blasted out of my skin by the echoing report of fireworks. I rushed to my window just as revelers took to the streets with noisemakers and I beamed as Roman Candles popped and crackled in multi-coloured arcs and children danced around glistening puddles on the sidewalk chanting “2008! It’s gonna be great!”

“Indeed,” I concurred. “Indeed!”