The End Of 2022

It's the last day of 2022 and for many people, it's also a "good riddance." The year was bad for many folks I know but here's hoping that our 2023 is bright and full of possibility and great opportunities. Thank you for taking the time to read BBG! this past year. I appreciate our little family and the conversations in the comments section - even if they get a little rough sometimes.

If you are going out to celebrate tonight, please be careful and don't drink and drive. Many cities are offering free rides, plus there is always Uber, Lyft and a good old fashioned cab service.

Don't beat yourself up too much with a list of resolutions, either. Small, incremental changes work best for behavior modification and one setback doesn't mean giving up all your progress. So good luck to all of you who are vowing to lose weight, exercise more, save more money, quit smoking or a whole other litany of popular resolutions. You can do it!

Better watch this one quick because I'm not sure how long it will be on YouTube - but below is the full Ronnie James Dio biopic Dreamers Never Die. See you next year!

Comments

[Kixchix]

Awesome final post of 2022. Thanks for all you do Alyson. I am grateful. Broad strokes for how good/bad a year has been are futile. My suggestion for a growth (and resilient) mindset are to read a bit of what the ancient Stoics (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus) gave us philosophically. Ryan Holliday has plenty of Stoic vignettes on Instagram to get you up to speed quickly.

Enjoy what you have now. All the best to all the BBG voyeurs out there as well!

Oh. Dreamers Never Die is pretty good. Little too much cheese (actor portrayals) for my taste. But Dio deserves legendary status. Popped up on my YouTube feed (damn algorithms are programming us lol) as well.

[Him]

Late to this party. But glad I got a chance to check in.

Yes, yes, yes, Kixchix! Another year of thanks to Allyson for what she offers all of us here. I hope there are even more casual conversations, involving new members, as we move into the next year. If you are just watching from the sides, join in!

The Stoics, Kixchix? Really? I tend towards Aristotle's definition of happiness (or eudaimonia). But that is a slight quibble, to be fair. Anything we base off of what was based off of (even as it critiques it, natch) Socrates is based off of teachings that are, literally, lost to time. And Plato was not a good--well, he was a biased--deliverer of those goods to those who came after! But, yeah, I can see your point. For me, I approach things a bit more like Tacitus these days. The Dialogus stands as his melancholy attempt to put pieces back together that can never be made whole). But it, surprisingly, shines a light forward. Or, perhaps, the Sophists (though it is all second-hand and some of it is a bit glib).

I am resisting watching the Dio doc. I know it is cheese. And I love him. But I know I will watch it.

[Metalboy!]

Personally, I lean a little more toward The Ramones rather than The Stoics, however I will conduct a review of all those you both mentioned before delivering my final analysis.

p.s. The Stoics! … Now there’s a cool band name if I ever heard one.