2025. Things I want to do. Things I need to do. I need to go outside late at night and see stars on the dark sky behind the treetops, behind my favorite treetops. This is something I can do. I know this is something I can still do, regardless of my bad knees. I can sit, and look up. I want to look up and see the snowflakes falling at me from above.

I want to walk down the snowy street and see if Christmas wreaths are still hanging in the windows on that house on the corner. I didn’t see the tree in the window this year like it’s always been these last years. And I want to see the wreaths, at least.

I need to see if my place in the shade is still there. I need it to be there. I can’t even say how much I need it to be there. I need to walk down by the creek where the dragonflies hang over the water in July and glisten in the late day sun. I need to go to that place where I saw a little bit of heaven…once.

You can anticipate this one. Words we’ve all been carrying around in our heads since 1969/70, as if the Rolling Stones are where we want to go for words to live by. You can’t always get what you want, honey, you can’t always get what you want. You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need. [From the Rolling Stones album, Let It Bleed, 1969.]

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