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New Year’s Day.&#160 Our society’s “Reset” button.&#160 Our culture – or what’s left of it, anyway – reboots, reloads and starts over.

And with every New Year’s Day comes two things in this household:&#160 New Year’s Reminiscing, and New Year’s Resolutions.&#160 A look back, and a look forward, as it were.

2005 was the Year of the Natural Disaster around the world.&#160 From the earthquake which caused the tsunami in Asia (and yes, I realize it happened at the tail end of 2004, but the effects lasted well into 2005) and the resulting devastation, to Hurricanes Katrina & Rita, which destroyed most of New Orleans and caused more than a bit of damage to Alabama, Mississippi and the Texas coastline, and killed close to 1,500 people, to more earthquakes in places like Indonesia, Micronesia, Turkey, northern Iran, Japan, China, Pakistan and even here in the United States, Ma Nature showed that she is still quite “red in tooth and claw”, to borrow a phrase.

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