New yet old....

As our earth completed yet another cycle around the sun, in its endless and ceaseless circle of life, and I hear litanies of "Happy New Year", I gaze at the slivers of light dancing on my skin, playing hide and seek...these have travelled billions of years to touch me on this day...I lift my eyes and gaze at a sun, trillions of years away, at a sun, who is ageless and as old as life itself, yet creates new life, a sun which will live into infinity and yet is ooooold...I scan the trees and the mountains, which have lived a million lives and seen a million lives passing...I see each and every one of life's creatures, the ant, the butterfly, the bird, that young lady, that handsome lad, the gracious old lady, the lonely man, the loving couple, all here.. at this point.. on this day.. in this time and space... here because.... something else lived, died and lived again... so, what is new and what is old...we are but incidental...magical we may be...ultimately, cosmic dust.....is what we are...dancing in light on your skin.....