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Dear Helmut, Thank you for the invitation to comment on the "momentous occasion", celebration of the millennium. Ironically, after all of the hype and hoopla, we are finding that most people are choosing to celebrate at home with family and friends. Perhaps we are finally realizing that what is truly of tremendous importance is not the changing of the century or the millennium, but the love of family and friends. Giving of ourselves to them makes us feel far greater and more fulfilled than seeing the year click over like our auto odometer. We are finding that it is people--not numbers--that matter. Often, over the years, we have made "New Year's" resolutions, only to put them aside days later because they were far too ambitious. This year, we are asked to look not only to the next year, but to the next 100 years and the next 1000. In reality, the best way to change things for the better for the millennium would be for each of us to make a resolution one day at a time. "I'll be more patient with my kids today"; "I'll say something nice to everyone I see today", and so on. Making someone's life brighter for a day is simple--and habit forming. Perhaps it takes a "momentous" occasion like entering
the next millennium to realize just how important it is to live one day at a time and
enjoy it to the fullest. May the next day and week and century, for that matter, find you
and your family happy,loved and healthy and aware of how precious is every minute of our
time together. As we enter the year 2000, I count your friendship among my greatest
blessings and wish you all happiness--one day Your friend, Anne
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