REFLECTIONS ON TIME THEN AND NOW

Twenty-years ago on December 31 people began to wonder what will happen when The Digital Transformation begins?  Would transactions made in 1999 be honored when banks began to use zeroes to record financial and personal deposits?  How would Hospital, Police and Fire Departments  operate?  People began to store water, food and other necessities in fear that delivery systems would be interrupted. Though the engineering changes had been studied and anticipated many years before, there was a sense of uncertainty that calamity would happen when the great Crystal Ball of New York would ring out the message "Happy New Year 2000!"   I  believe the same sense of uncertainty and fear is felt now.

To overcome our fear then we sought the advice of honest, reasonable leaders who were not arrogant.  We found  information easily and accessibly through a free press.  As citizens we used technology to  help us improve deficiencies and extend opportunities for education.  In the next twenty years we will experience more changes.  Sometimes we may call upon religious or spiritual faith to ease us through change, but  let that faith not question one's loyalty to this country.  It is not a single person or  ideology that will lead us safely.  Not one of us is above the law, it is our heritage.    We need to listen more to correct injustice.  We need to examine our own behavior.  The New Year allows us to be hopeful that America's fairness  will be seeded by the kindness we citizens accord each other.

May good health, good weather and common sense be accorded you and yours in 2020.

                                            HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!