Happy New Year! POD

Happy New Year to all. Here's a photographic post for New Year's day, and also one for what I hope will be a Photo of the Day project for January 2008. As they say that the old year is "old" and
the new year is a "baby" or child, here's a picture I just took a couple of days ago in Portland, OR. The gentleman in the picture is "old," but more than that, he has had a tough life. His face does not speak of old age from a Norman Rockwell perspective. No, it speaks of long suffering. It speaks of need. It speaks of a need for peace within and without.

For me this picture is really about not forgetting the least among us this year. There is incredible need out there, and in my estimation 2007 was a year in which, for all the nice language used about solving problems, we (as a nation, as a world) continued to add to the store of urgent need, and to suffering.

Let us propose, and dispose, to do better this year. Let us make 2008 a year in which every action counts toward the reduction of suffering.

I hope you and your loved ones have a Happy New Year, and one that will reduce harm, and help relieve suffering.

Happy New Year.

Image copyright Nathaniel I. Cordova/Exposure Latitude(s) - 2007-2008.