questions for a new year

Is it a year of the rat?
Or of the hat?
Maybe the sloth, the lemur, or axolotl?
When is the lunar new year?
How about the solar?
Or the plexus?
Where will I be a year from now, days after Epiphany?
Will I *be*?
Won't I *be* a "someone else" in any event, no matter what?
What epiphanies await me this year?
This day, this second?
And am I ready for them?
And does it matter, ready or not?

Red Cow Brown Rat Shite Monkey

We interrupt your Lunar New Year's celebration to report this bulletin:

From what I can discern, I am a Red Cow born in the year of the Brown Rat, or a Fire Cow.

That may explain some of my minor, unmentionable travails (French pun intended) this week.

Or not.

Prediction: Now that we are into a new lunar year, I see fewer craters and more starshine.

Let's see:

Red Cow born in year of Brown Rat exhibits these qualities, in no particular order:

insight, humor, impulsiveness, passion, tenderness, energy, impatience, nurturing, stubbornness, fierceness, cleverness, strength, foolishness, and navel lint.

Happy New Year.

All good things!

(What would Kierkegaard say?)